| carios mimon (acari: argasidae): description of adults and redescription of larva. | carios mimon is an argasid tick common on chiroptera, originally described from larvae collected on bats mimon crenulatum from bolivia and eptesicus brasiliensis from uruguay. later it was also registered from argentina and recently included among the brazilian tick fauna. in brazil, this species is very aggressive to man, resulting in intense inflammatory response and pain. it is known only by the larval description and its morphology resembles that from other species currently included into th ... | 2010 | 21161720 |
| rickettsial infection in ticks from wild birds from cerrado and the pantanal region of mato grosso, midwestern brazil. | the involvement of different species of ticks and wild animals, such as birds, play an important role in the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases. birds may serve as reservoirs for some tick-borne diseases, and may carry and spread hematophagous ectoparasites mechanically. this study aimed to show the diversity of ticks on birds and molecular detection of rickettsial infection in ticks from pantanal and cerrado, two similar brazilian biomes characterized by hydrological seasons. during two years, ... | 2015 | 26232933 |
| association patterns of ticks (acari: ixodida: ixodidae, argasidae) of small mammals in cerrado fragments, western brazil. | the present study describes ticks associated with small mammals and analyzes the aggregation patterns according to seasonal and host variations in the cerrado biome, central-western brazil. small mammals were systematically captured in 54 woodland fragments from february 2012 to july 2013. a total of 1,040 animals belonging to eight marsupial and 12 rodent species were captured; 265 animals were parasitized by eight tick species (in decreasing order of abundance): ornithodoros mimon, amblyomma c ... | 2015 | 25633262 |
| new records and human parasitism by ornithodoros mimon (acari: argasidae) in brazil. | the bat tick ornithodoros mimon kohls, clifford & jones is currently known by only few reports in bolivia, uruguay, argentina, and the state of são paulo in southeastern brazil. here, we expand the distribution of o. mimon in brazil to the states of minas gerais (southeastern region), goiás (central-western), pernambuco, and rio grande do norte (northeastern). ticks were collected on human dwellings, where there had been repeated complains of tick bites on persons during the night. tick bites we ... | 2014 | 24605480 |
| gut transcriptome analysis on females of ornithodoros mimon (acari: argasidae) and phylogenetic inference of ticks. | ornithodoros mimon is an argasid tick that parasitizes bats, birds and opossums and is also harmful to humans. knowledge of the transcripts present in the tick gut helps in understanding the role of vital molecules in the digestion process and parasite-host relationship, while also providing information about the evolution of arthropod hematophagy. thus, the present study aimed to know and ascertain the main molecules expressed in the gut of argasid after their blood meal, through analysis on th ... | 2017 | 28746449 |
| description of nymphal instars of ornithodoros mimon kohls, clifford & jones, 1969 (acari: argasidae). | ornithodoros mimon is an argasid tick common on chiroptera in the neotropical region, where it also bites humans aggressively. here we describe for the first time all nymphal instars (n1, n2 and n3) of o. mimon based on optical and scanning electron microscopy. although the nymphal instars of o. mimon resemble each other closely, there are characters that differentiate them: the n3 are taller that n1 and n2; the genital primordium occurs in some n2 and all n3; the spiracular plate in n1 and n2 i ... | 2013 | 26106682 |
| life cycle of ornithodoros mimon (acari: argasidae) under laboratory conditions. | ornithodoros mimon kohls et al. is an argasid tick, originally described from larvae collected on bats from bolivia and uruguay. in brazil the species is aggressive to humans and animals. nymphs and adults of o. mimon were collected from the roof of a residence in araraquara, são paulo, brazil, whose residents were bitten by ticks. once in the laboratory, they were fed on rabbits and maintained in biological oxygen demand incubator at 27 ± 1 °c and 90 ± 10 % relative humidity. the females, after ... | 2012 | 22570058 |