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Ticks Collected from Selected Mammalian Hosts Surveyed in the Republic of Korea During 2008-2009

A tick survey was conducted to determine the relative abundance and distribution of ticks associated with selected mammals in the Republic of Korea (ROK) during 2008-2009. A total of 918 ticks were collected from 76 mammals (6 families, 9 species) captured at 6 provinces and 3 Metropolitan Cities in...

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Autores principales: Kim, Heung Chul, Han, Sang Hoon, Chong, Sung Tae, Klein, Terry A., Choi, Chang-Yong, Nam, Hyun-Young, Chae, Hee-Young, Lee, Hang, Ko, Sungjin, Kang, Jun-Gu, Chae, Joon-Seok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22072840
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2011.49.3.331
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Sumario:A tick survey was conducted to determine the relative abundance and distribution of ticks associated with selected mammals in the Republic of Korea (ROK) during 2008-2009. A total of 918 ticks were collected from 76 mammals (6 families, 9 species) captured at 6 provinces and 3 Metropolitan Cities in ROK. Haemaphysalis longicornis (54.4%) was the most frequently collected tick, followed by Haemaphysalis flava (28.5%), Ixodes nipponensis (7.6%), Ixodes pomerantzevi (4.8%), Ixodes persulcatus (4.6%), and Haemaphysalis japonica (0.1%). Adults (57.0%) and nymphs (28.7%) of Ixodes and Haemaphysalis spp. were collected most frequently from medium or large mammals in this survey, while few larvae (14.3%) were collected. Hydropotes inermis was the most frequently captured mammal (52.6%), with a 16.4 tick index and 5 of 6 species of ticks collected during this survey. H. longicornis (69.7%) was the predominant tick collected from H. inermis, followed by H. flava (22.2%), I. persulcatus (6.1%), I. nipponensis (1.8%), and H. japonica (0.2%).