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Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania

BACKGROUND: Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve is one of the most interesting regions in Europe from an epidemiological point of view due to its great biodiversity, local climatic conditions and various types of habitats. Moreover, there is no data regarding the ectoparasite communities of dogs from thi...

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Autores principales: Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana, Kiss, Botond, Dantas-Torres, Filipe, Latrofa, Maria Stefania, D’Amico, Gianluca, Sándor, Attila David, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24612483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-97
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author Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana
Kiss, Botond
Dantas-Torres, Filipe
Latrofa, Maria Stefania
D’Amico, Gianluca
Sándor, Attila David
Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
author_facet Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana
Kiss, Botond
Dantas-Torres, Filipe
Latrofa, Maria Stefania
D’Amico, Gianluca
Sándor, Attila David
Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
author_sort Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana
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description BACKGROUND: Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve is one of the most interesting regions in Europe from an epidemiological point of view due to its great biodiversity, local climatic conditions and various types of habitats. Moreover, there is no data regarding the ectoparasite communities of dogs from this area. In this frame, the aims of our study were to establish the tick communities parasitizing dogs and to provide new data regarding seasonal dynamics of a neglected tick species, Rhipicephalus rossicus. METHODS: A survey was carried out in order to gather information regarding tick species attaching to domestic dogs from a steppic region of southeastern Romania and to establish their seasonal dynamics. The research was conducted from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2013, on 8 dogs from Iazurile, a locality from the west-central part of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. In total, 384 examinations were made, each dog being checked for tick infestation 4 times per month, for one year. RESULTS: The 893 ticks found belonged to six species: R. rossicus (95.6%), Dermacentor reticulatus (3.2%), Ixodes ricinus (0.5%), Hyalomma marginatum (0.3%), Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (s.l.) (0.2%) and Ixodes crenulatus (0.1%). From the 91 positive examinations, R. rossicus was found in 80 (87.9%). Single species infestation occurred in 84 examinations. In 7 out of 91 positive examinations mixed infestation were found. No ticks were found in December, January and September. CONCLUSIONS: For R. rossicus, high frequency and intensity were observed in May, June and July. The activity peaks for D. reticulatus were in spring and autumn. Our results highlight that within the range of R. sanguineus s.l., the most common dog tick worldwide, selected dog populations may be predominantly infested by closely related species, like in our case, R. rossicus.
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spelling pubmed-39752902014-04-05 Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana Kiss, Botond Dantas-Torres, Filipe Latrofa, Maria Stefania D’Amico, Gianluca Sándor, Attila David Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Parasit Vectors Research BACKGROUND: Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve is one of the most interesting regions in Europe from an epidemiological point of view due to its great biodiversity, local climatic conditions and various types of habitats. Moreover, there is no data regarding the ectoparasite communities of dogs from this area. In this frame, the aims of our study were to establish the tick communities parasitizing dogs and to provide new data regarding seasonal dynamics of a neglected tick species, Rhipicephalus rossicus. METHODS: A survey was carried out in order to gather information regarding tick species attaching to domestic dogs from a steppic region of southeastern Romania and to establish their seasonal dynamics. The research was conducted from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2013, on 8 dogs from Iazurile, a locality from the west-central part of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. In total, 384 examinations were made, each dog being checked for tick infestation 4 times per month, for one year. RESULTS: The 893 ticks found belonged to six species: R. rossicus (95.6%), Dermacentor reticulatus (3.2%), Ixodes ricinus (0.5%), Hyalomma marginatum (0.3%), Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (s.l.) (0.2%) and Ixodes crenulatus (0.1%). From the 91 positive examinations, R. rossicus was found in 80 (87.9%). Single species infestation occurred in 84 examinations. In 7 out of 91 positive examinations mixed infestation were found. No ticks were found in December, January and September. CONCLUSIONS: For R. rossicus, high frequency and intensity were observed in May, June and July. The activity peaks for D. reticulatus were in spring and autumn. Our results highlight that within the range of R. sanguineus s.l., the most common dog tick worldwide, selected dog populations may be predominantly infested by closely related species, like in our case, R. rossicus. BioMed Central 2014-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3975290/ /pubmed/24612483 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-97 Text en Copyright © 2014 Dumitrache et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Research
Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana
Kiss, Botond
Dantas-Torres, Filipe
Latrofa, Maria Stefania
D’Amico, Gianluca
Sándor, Attila David
Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title_full Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title_fullStr Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title_full_unstemmed Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title_short Seasonal dynamics of Rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern Romania
title_sort seasonal dynamics of rhipicephalus rossicus attacking domestic dogs from the steppic region of southeastern romania
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24612483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-97
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