Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae), the brown dog tick, parasitizing humans in Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Figueredo, Luciana Aguiar¹  Brandão-Filho, Sinval Pinto¹  Dantas-Torres, Filipe¹  Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Brazil¹  Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife¹ 

关键词: Brown dog tick;    Human parasitism;    Tick-borne diseases;    Epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822006000100012

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this paper is to describe four cases of human parasitism by Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latrielle) in Brazil. During an investigation regarding the species of ectoparasites of domestic dogs from the metropolitan region of Recife, Pernambuco state, four dog owners were found to be parasitized by ticks. The ticks were collected from these individuals and their dogs. All the ticks were identified as Rhipicephalus sanguineus . These are, to our knowledge, the first four cases of human parasitism by this tick species in Brazil. The possible implications of this finding are discussed here.

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