| ticks (acari: ixodidae) collected from small and medium-sized kansas mammals. | seven species of hard-bodied ticks were collected from 20 species of small and medium-sized mammals in kansas; amblyomma americanum l., dermacentor variabilis (say), haemaphysalis leporispalustris (packard), ixodes cookei packard, i. kingi bishopp, i. sculptus neumann, and i. texanus banks. dermacentor variabilis was found statewide, a. americanum only in the eastern one-third of the state, and the ixodes spp. and h. leporispalustris were widely scattered. the most common tick found was d. varia ... | 1994 | 8057327 |
| new host and locality record for trypanosoma peromysci. | trypanosoma peromysci watson, 1912 (sarcomastigophora: kinetoplastida), is described from a new host and locality. one of 20 (5.0%) peromyscus leucopus collected from pottawatomie and riley counties in kansas was found to harbor the parasite. morphometric and statistical analysis confirmed the trypanosome to be indistinguishable from t. peromysci, the only difference being a greater mean flagellar length than reported previously. this is the first reported occurrence of t. peromysci in the white ... | 1990 | 2319433 |