Ixodidae ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with wild animals from forest fragments of Manaus

Sérgio Luis Gianizella & Carlos Augusto Rodrigues do Nascimento

In Brazil hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are important vectors of pathogens for humans, domestic and wild animals, and are considered to be relevant arthropods in public health and animal health. In the last decade, some works on ticks in wild animals were conducted in the Brazilian Amazon biome, however these scientific studies are scarce and fragmented. Thus, there is a difficulty in the field of tick taxonomy and consequently the obtaining of information on the geographic distribution, its hosts and the diseases caused by the pathogens transmitted by these ectoparasites, especially in the Brazilian Amazon region.

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Text: Thiago Fernandes Martins

Translated by Tim Vincent (6/3/2017)