| chagas disease in the amazon basin: association of panstrongylus geniculatus (hemiptera: reduviidae) with domestic pigs. | just over 100 autochthonous cases of chagas disease are reported from the brazilian amazon basin. panstrongylus geniculatus (latreille) occurs throughout the region and is the known vector of trypanosoma cruzi, principal zymodeme 3 (z3) to the armadillo dasypus novemcinctus. in the small riverine community of furo do rio pau grande, pigsties adjoining houses were heavily infested with p. geniculatus, which repeatedly attacked local inhabitants. palm trees in the immediate vicinity were also infe ... | 1998 | 9538568 |
| parasitism of domestic swine (sus scrofa) by amblyomma ticks (acari: ixodidae) on a farm at monte negro, western amazon, brazil. | abstract in january 2001, while conducting a survey of the tick fauna of the state of rondĵnia, brazil, a rural area within monte negro county was visited. on one farm within the county the producer maintained a herd of crossbred swine, sus scrofa l., that was reared under unconfined conditions, with unrestrained access to the pasture and adjacent native amazon equatorial forest. inspection of the swine herd produced a total of 77 ticks collected from eight adult pigs (mean, 9.6 ticks per pig) t ... | 2002 | 11931265 |
| sus scrofa domestica endoparasitic resistance in the amazonas. | the domestic pig (sus scrofa domestica l.) has been wild breeding in the varzea amazonian estuary area. without dietary supplement or medical prevention, the pigs survive, bringing economic benefits to local peasants. endoparasitic diseases generate economic losses because of neonatal death and clinical disease. we assessed the nematoda (o. nematoda) and coccidia (o. eucoccidia) parasitic level and tolerance in 75 pigs (0-18 months) from 35 families using the following methods: (i) larvae cultur ... | 1996 | 8784532 |