Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Associated with Rural Dogs in Uruará, Eastern Amazon, Brazil

Marcelo Bahia Labruna; Valéria Stacchini Ferreira Homem; Marcos Bryan Heinemann; José Soares Ferreira Neto

doi:10.1603/0022-2585-37.5.774

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Marcelo Bahia Labrunahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9675-3132,¹ Valéria Stacchini Ferreira Homem,¹ Marcos Bryan Heinemann,¹ José Soares Ferreira Neto¹

¹Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de, Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Abstract

A survey of 124 dogs for ticks was conducted from August to November 1998 in 68 small farms of Uruará municipality in Eastern Amazon-Brazil. We collected 55 ticks from 18 dogs (14.5%). Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, Amblyomma ovale Koch, and Amblyomma cajennense (F.) were found on nine, six, and one dog, respectively. Fourteen small farms (20.5%) had at least one dog with ticks.

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Marcelo Bahia Labruna, Valéria Stacchini Ferreira Homem, Marcos Bryan Heinemann, and José Soares Ferreira Neto "Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Associated with Rural Dogs in Uruará, Eastern Amazon, Brazil," Journal of Medical Entomology 37(5), 774-776, (1 September 2000). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-37.5.774

Received: 26 April 1999; Accepted: 1 May 2000; Published: 1 September 2000