| parasites of domestic and wild animals in south africa. xlvii. ticks of tortoises and other reptiles. | a total of 586 reptiles, belonging to 35 species and five subspecies, were examined in surveys aimed at determining the species spectrum and geographic distribution of ticks that infest them. of these reptiles 509 were tortoises, 28 monitor or other lizards, and 49 snakes. nine ixodid tick species, of which seven belonged to the genus amblyomma, and one argasid tick, ornithodoros compactus were recovered. seven of the ten tick species are parasites of reptiles. amongst these seven species amblyo ... | 2006 | 17058444 |
| investigation of rickettsia, coxiella burnetii and bartonella in ticks from animals in south africa. | ticks are involved in the epidemiology of several human pathogens including spotted fever group (sfg) rickettsia spp., coxiella burnetii and bartonella spp. human diseases caused by these microorganisms have been reported from south africa. the presence of sfg rickettsia spp., c. burnetii and bartonella spp. was investigated in 205 ticks collected from domestic and wild animals from western cape and limpopo provinces (south africa). rickettsia massiliae was detected in 10 amblyomma sylvaticum an ... | 2016 | 26718068 |
| parasites of domestic and wild animals in south africa. li. ticks infesting leopard tortoises <i>stigmochelys pardalis</i>, hingeback tortoises <i>kinixys zombensis</i> and angulate tortoises <i>chersina angulata</i>. | the objective of the study was to record the tick species collected from three species of tortoise, each in a different province of south africa. ticks were collected from leopard tortoises, stigmochyles pardalis, in the southern region of the kruger national park, mpumalanga province; from hingeback tortoises, kinixys zombensis, in the enseleni nature reserve, kwazulu-natal province and from angulate tortoises, chersina angulata, in the west coast national park, western cape province. of the 63 ... | 2017 | 28281776 |
| reassignment of the land tortoise haemogregarine haemogregarina fitzsimonsi dias 1953 (adeleorina: haemogregarinidae) to the genus hepatozoon miller 1908 (adeleorina: hepatozoidae) based on parasite morphology, life cycle and phylogenetic analysis of 18s rdna sequence fragments. | summary research was undertaken to clarify the true taxonomic position of the terrestrial tortoise apicomplexan, haemogregarina fitzsimonsi (dias, 1953). thin blood films were screened from 275 wild and captive south african tortoises of 6 genera and 10 species between 2009-2011. apicomplexan parasites within films were identified, with a focus on h. fitzsimonsi. ticks from wild tortoises, especially amblyomma sylvaticum and amblyomma marmoreum were also screened, and sporogonic stages were iden ... | 2014 | 24923767 |