Amblyomma ticks in animal carcasses hunted in Mapinguari National Park, Western Amazon, Brazil: New records on species and host-parasite relationships

Ticks are obligatory parasites and transmit several pathogens to animals and humans. This study aimed to report the parasitism of ticks on carcasses of animals hunted by hunters from communities near Mapinguari National Park, at the shared border of Amazonas and Rondonia states, northern Brazil. The...

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Published inTicks and tick-borne diseases Vol. 13; no. 5; p. 101973
Main Authors da Costa, Ivaneide Nunes, Oliveira, Marcela Alvares, de Paulo, Paula Frassinetti Medeiros, Carioca, Angélica Lorena Pereira Mendes, Garcia, Marcos Valério, Aguirre, André de Abreu Rangel, de Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier GmbH 01.09.2022
Subjects
Amazonia
Amblyomma triste
Brazil
Dasypus
Dasypus beniensis
DNA
fauna
genes
Ixodid
national parks
parasitism
Pecari tajacu
polymerase chain reaction
species
Tapirus terrestris
ticks
Brazil
Amazonia
Pecari tajacu
Tapirus terrestris
Dasypus beniensis
Ixodid
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ISSN1877-959X
1877-9603
1877-9603
DOI10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101973

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Summary:Ticks are obligatory parasites and transmit several pathogens to animals and humans. This study aimed to report the parasitism of ticks on carcasses of animals hunted by hunters from communities near Mapinguari National Park, at the shared border of Amazonas and Rondonia states, northern Brazil. The ticks were collected from heads of carcasses of the following animals: South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) and long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus beniensis). Six Amblyomma tick species were identified: Amblyomma coelebs, Amblyomma naponense, Amblyomma latepunctatum, Amblyomma oblongoguttatum, Amblyomma scalpturatum, Amblyomma triste and Amblyomma spp. The most abundant tick species were A. oblongoguttatum and A. scalpturatum. DNA extraction and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were performed on all ticks to test for the presence of rickettsial gltA gene fragments, but no amplification was observed. This study reports, for the first time, the parasitism of A. coelebs in the armadillo D. beniensis and the presence of A. triste in the states of Amazonas and Rondonia, updating the tick fauna to 24 and 39 species for these states, respectively.
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ISSN:1877-959X
1877-9603
1877-9603
DOI:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101973