Integrated tick control on a farm with the presence of capybaras in a Brazilian spotted fever endemic region / Controle integrado do carrapato em uma fazenda com presença de capivaras em região endêmica para febre maculosa brasileira
Araújo, Shirley Batista de; Sampaio, Paulo Henrique Selbmann; Duarte, Fernanda Calvo; Anjos, Karina Araújo dos; Fiorini, Leonardo Costa; Godoi, Felipe Eduardo de Matos; Mendes, Márcia Cristina.
Rev. bras. parasitol. vet
; 28(4): 671-676, Oct.-Dec. 2019. tab, graf
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Abstract Ticks of the Amblyomma cajennense complex present high infestation rates. These ticks transmit the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes Brazilian Spotted Fever. For this reason, an integrated tick control system was adopted on a farm in the municipality of Itu, state of São Paulo. On this farm, which borders the Tietê river, domestic animals are in contact with populations of capybaras. Six locations were monitored and evaluated between the years of 2015 and 2017. During this work 1271 nymphs and adult ticks were caught, all of them from the Amblyomma sculptum species, except for a single individual from the Amblyomma dubitatum species. The integrated tick management reduced the overall infestation levels to zero. Adult tick population dropped in the first year of the study, while larvae population dropped in the second year. Nymph population dropped in both years, decreasing in higher numbers in the first year. The estimated mean infestation levels for all of the tick's life cycle forms in the six monitored spots did not reach one individual in the end of the study. Estimated mean infestation levels for nymphs in these places equaled zero.
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