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

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Filipe Dantas-torres²  Luciana Aguiar Figueredo¹  Sinval Pinto Brandão-filho² 

[1] ,Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães Recife PE ,Brazil

关键词: Brown dog tick;    Human parasitism;    Tick-borne diseases;    Epidemiology;    Carrapato vermelho do cão;    Parasitismo humano;    Doenças transmitidas por carrapatos;    Epidemiologia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822006000100012

来源: SciELO

【 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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