Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Records for<i>Argas radiatus</i>(Ixodida: Argasidae) and<i>Ixodes brunneus</i>(Ixodida: Ixodidae)

Hutcheson, H. Joel; Mertins, James W.; Kondratieff, Boris C.; White, Monica M

doi:10.1093/jme/tjaa232

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“…The nymphs have numerous spine-like processes and inhabit deeply in the host external ear canal; hence O. megnini is calling the spinous ear tick. It is the most widespread soft tick in Mexico, meanwhile records in Central America are restricted to Guatemala(Guglielmone et al 2004;Nava et al 2009;Hutcheson et al, 2021). Adults of O. megnini are not parasitic, meanwhile larvae and nymphs infest several domestic and wild animals included horses (as recorded here for El Salvador) and occasionally humans(Hutcheson et al 2021).…”

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New records of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and Rickettsia species in El Salvador

Romero,

Alvarenga,

Binder

et al. 2024

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The tick fauna of El Salvador is currently represented by 10 species of hard ticks (family Ixodidae) and two species of soft ticks (family Argasidae). This study aimed to report new and additional records of ticks and rickettsiae in El Salvador. During 2019–2021, a total of 216 specimens of ticks were collected from eight host species (domestic and wild animals) and in the environment among 15 geographic localities of El Salvador. Combining morphological and molecular analyses, tick specimens were identified into the following 11 tick species: Amblyomma dissimile, Amblyomma longirostre, Amblyomma mixtum, Amblyomma ovale, Amblyomma cf. parvum, Amblyomma sabanerae, Amblyomma scutatum, Dermacentor panamensis, Ixodes boliviensis, Ornithodoros puertoricensis, and Otobius megnini. In addition, one free-living nymph was morphologically and molecularly identified as Ixodes sp., although closely related to Ixodes brunneus and Ixodes silvanus. Three rickettsial agents of the spotted fever group were identified: Rickettsia rhipicephali in D. panamensis; a Rickettsia endosymbiont in Ixodes boliviensis; and Rickettsia amblyommatis in A. cf. parvum. This study reports the first records of A. longirostre, D. panamensis, I. boliviensis, O. puertoricensis and O. megnini in El Salvador. In addition, the agents R. rhipicephali and Rickettsia sp. endosymbiont of I. boliviensis are also reported for the first time in the country. With the present study, the current tick fauna of El Salvador increases to 17 species, being 13 Ixodidae and four Argasidae, including the addition of one genus to each of these two families (Ixodes and Otobius, respectively).

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New records of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and Rickettsia species in El Salvador

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“…from dogs to arboreal hosts such as tree shrews and squirrels, and into the nests where the vultures roost. Reports of soft and hard tick species in vulture nests were documented (Abdussalam & Sarwar 1953; Hoogstraal et al 1968; Hoogstraal & Kaiser 1970; Lynch et al 2019; Hutcheson et al 2020). However, none of them mentioned which hosts carried the ticks in those nests.…”

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“…The vulture-tick interaction has been poorly studied, despite records of ticks from these avian hosts were reported in tick surveillance studies (Turner et al 2017; Hutcheson et al 2020). The lack of such discussion could be due to the lack of animal sampling and the decline of the vulture population due to carrion poisoning, health crisis and power source development (Naidoo et al 2009; Carrete et al 2012; Naidoo et al 2017; Hernández et al 2018).…”

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A checklist of the tick of vultures, with the first record of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus linnaei (Acari: Ixodidae) from the Indian vulture, Gyps indicus (Falconiformes: Accipitridae)

Kazim

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Houssaini

et al. 2023

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We report the presence of multiple brown dog ticks (Rhicephalus linnaei) from the Indian vulture Gyps indicus. This paper constitutes the first report of this tick species from the vulture, and also the first documentation of ectoparasites from vultures in Malaysia. Additionally, we have conducted a literature review on ticks from vultures worldwide, resulting in 21 tick species consisted of six genera (Argas, Ornithodoros, Amblyomma, Hyalomma, Ixodes and Rhipicephalus) recorded from eight Old World vultures and two New World vultures. The lists of ticks infesting both vulture groups, along with pathogens detected from some of these ticks, are provided in this paper.

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“…However, it remains unclear if the tick in question was infected by spillover from another sylvatic cycle featuring Ixodes genus ticks or constitutes its own sylvatic system. Neither scapularis nor I. cookei are native to Colorado, although several rodent-specific Ixodes species are present (8) that may be involved in such a system.…”

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