Las garrapatas son ectoparásitos hematófagos obligados que actúan como vectores biológicos de diversos patógenos ya que parasitan aves, reptiles y mamíferos. Las enfermedades en las cuales actúan como vectores son la anaplasmosis, piroplasmosis, borreliosis, theileriosis y diversas enfermedades ri...
Abstract | Introduction: Ixodes tropicalis is a little-known tick species reported parasitizing wild rodents only in Colombia and Perú. Objective: To report a case of I. tropicalis infesting a human in the south of the metropolitan area of the Valle de Aburrá, Antioquia, Colombia, and to report the m...
Abstract The state of Acre is in the western part of the Brazilian Amazon region and few studies involving ticks are available. The aim of the present study was to provide the first report of occurrence of Amblyomma latepunctatum and the second record of Ixodes luciae in Acre. Ticks were collected in Oct...
Abstract Small mammals play an essential role in the transmission and maintenance cycles of Borrelia spirochetes. In Chile, recent studies have characterized novel Borrelia genotypes in ticks collected from small mammals, a fact that suggests these vertebrates are hosts for spirochetes from this genus. C...
Resumo A doença de Lyme é uma infecção sistêmica causada pela espiroqueta Borrelia burgdorferi e transmitida pelo carrapato do gênero Ixodes sp. e espécie Amblyomma cajennense. A doença costuma se manifestar em três estágios clínicos distintos, que podem variar de acordo com as característica...
Enfermedad de Lyme/complicaciones,
Parálisis Facial/etiología,
Grupo Borrelia Burgdorferi/aislamiento & purificación,
Ixodes,
Amblyomma,
Infecciones por Borrelia/transmisión,
Enfermedad de Lyme/diagnóstico,
Enfermedad de Lyme/tratamiento farmacológico,
Ceftriaxona/administración & dosificación,
Diplopía/etiología,
Oftalmopatías/etiología,
Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso/etiología,
Neuroborreliosis de Lyme/complicaciones
Brazilian Spotted Fever is an important tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted mainly by the human-biting tick Amblyomma sculptum. During an epidemiological surveillance in Pedro Leopoldo, an endemic area of Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil, ectoparasites were collected...
Ixodes amarali was reported for the second time in the State of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, from an engorged female obtained from a naturally infested opossum (Didelphis sp.). Biological characteristics of de non-parasitic phase were studied, under controlled conditions (temperature of 27ñ1§C,...
Um estudo ecológico sobre carrapatos ixodídeos foi feito entre 1989 e 1995 na regiäo leste da Sérvia. Dentre as 14 espécies da família Ixodidae, nove foram identificadas: Dermacentor marginatus, Rhipicephalus bursa, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes ricinus, Haemaphysalis punctata, Haemaphysalis sul...
