| the patterns of tungiasis in araruama township, state of rio de janeiro, brazil. | this paper describes patterns of infestation with tunga penetrans (l., 1758) within the poor community of araruama municipality, state of rio de janeiro, brazil, assessed by the number of persons and domestic animals parasitized. the overall prevalence of infestation was 49.2% (211 parasitized hosts) of the 429 examined. humans (p < 0.01) and dogs (p < 0.01) were the most important hosts with 62.6% and 35.6% respectively. dogs were considered as the potential infestation source to humans. consid ... | 2003 | 12700859 |
| patterns of infestation by chigger mites in four diurnal lizard species from a restinga habitat (jurubatiba) of southeastern brazil. | we studied the parasitism by larvae of the chigger mite eutrombicula alfreddugesi on the lizard community of restinga de jurubatiba, rio de janeiro state, southeastern brazil. we investigated the patterns of infestation (prevalence and intensity) of chigger mites in four sympatric lizards: tropidurus torquatus, mabuya agilis, m. macrorhyncha and cnemidophorus littoralis. all lizards collected were checked for the presence of mites, which were counted under stereomicroscope. we tested the relatio ... | 2004 | 14758698 |