| new rickettsia species in soft ticks ornithodoros hasei collected from bats in french guiana. | in french guiana, located on the northeastern coast of south america, bats of different species are very numerous. the infection of bats and their ticks with zoonotic bacteria, especially rickettsia species, is so far unknown. in order to improve knowledge of these zoonotic pathogens in this french overseas department, the presence and diversity of tick-borne bacteria was investigated with molecular tools in bat ticks. in the beginning of 2013, 32 bats were caught in saint-jean-du-maroni, an are ... | 2016 | 27639932 |
| evidence of bartonella spp. in blood and ticks (ornithodoros hasei) of bats, in french guiana. | we screened blood from 59 bats from french guiana for bartonella spp. pcrs were positive for 13.6% and culture was positive in one noctilio albiventris and one pteronotus parnellii, as well as in ornithodoros hasei ticks collected from bats. two isolated strains represent possible two new species. | 2016 | 27305604 |
| a new species of ornithodoros (acari: argasidae) from desert areas of northern chile. | ornithodoros atacamensis n. sp. is described from larvae collected on the lizard liolaemus bisignatus and from free-living adults collected in desert areas from the pan de azúcar and llanos de challe national parks, in northern chile. additionally, unengorged larvae were obtained from fertilized females, which laid eggs in the laboratory. morphological and mitochondrial 16s rdna sequence analyses were performed in order to compare this new soft tick species with other congeneric neotropical repr ... | 2016 | 27132517 |
| ticks infesting bats (mammalia: chiroptera) in the brazilian pantanal. | ticks associated with bats have been poorly documented in the neotropical zoogeographical region. in this study, a total of 1028 bats were sampled for tick infestations in the southern portion of the brazilian pantanal. a total of 368 ticks, morphologically identified as ornithodoros hasei (n = 364) and o. mimon (n = 4), were collected from the following bat species: artibeus planirostris, platyrrhinus lineatus, phyllostomus hastatus, mimon crenulatum and noctilio albiventris. morphological iden ... | 2016 | 26912332 |
| ticks parasitizing bats (mammalia: chiroptera) in the caatinga biome, brazil. | in this paper, the authors report ticks parasitizing bats from the serra das almas natural reserve (rppn) located in the municipality of crateús, state of ceará, in the semiarid caatinga biome of northeastern brazil. the study was carried out during nine nights in the dry season (july 2012) and 10 nights in the rainy season (february 2013). only bats of the phyllostomidae and mormoopidae families were parasitized by ticks. the species artibeus planirostris and carolia perspicillata were the most ... | 2016 | 27982297 |
| the ticks (acari: ixodida: argasidae, ixodidae) of paraguay. | the ticks reported in paraguay, which are here reviewed, can be categorized as 'endemic or established' (argas persicus or a sibling species, ornithodoros hasei, o. rostratus, o. rudis, o. talaje/o. puertoricensis, amblyomma aureolatum, am. auricularium, am. brasiliense, am. cajennense, am. calcaratum, am. coelebs, am. dissimile, am. dubitatum, am. incisum, am. longirostre, am. nodosum, am. ovale, am. pacae, am. parvum, am. pseudoconcolor, am. rotundatum, am. scutatum, am. tigrinum, am. triste, ... | 2007 | 17362600 |