Human Parasitism by the Brown Dog Tick1
- 1 June 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 62 (3) , 710-712
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/62.3.710
Abstract
Out of 643 collections of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille), from the United States only 13 were from humans and only 4 of these were biting records. A host-preference study for this species of tick showed 3.5% of the larvae tested, 2% of the nymphs, and 5% of the adults were induced to attach to humans after 24 hours. These figures are in contrast to 25% of the larvae, 57.7% of the nymphs, and 59.5% of the adults that attached to guinea pigs and 21.3% of the larvae, 61.1% of the nymphs, and 38.1% of the adults that attached to dogs over the same period of time. These observations indicate that R. sanguineus is not a major human parasite.Keywords
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