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Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with rural dogs in Uruará, eastern Amazon, Brazil
M B Labruna1, V S Homem, M B Heinemann
1Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Journal of Medical Entomology
|September 27, 2000
Abstract:
A survey of 124 dogs for ticks was conducted from August to November 1998 in 68 small farms of Uruará municipality in Eastern Amazon-Brazil. We collected 55 ticks from 18 dogs (14.5%). Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, Amblyomma ovale Koch, and Amblyomma cajennense (F.) were found on nine, six, and one dog, respectively. Fourteen small farms (20.5%) had at least one dog with ticks.