Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae), the brown dog tick, parasitizing humans in Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-67

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,c   Figueredo, Luciana Aguiar ^b   Brandão Filho, Sinval Pinto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brown dog tick; Epidemiology; Human parasitism; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECTOPARASITE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITISM; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 33644555182     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: 00378682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822006000100012     Document Type: Article

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