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Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea

BACKGROUND: The status of flea infestation in dogs is an important public health concern because of their cosmopolitan distribution worldwide and the flea-borne disease transmission. In the present study, we investigated the flea infestation among 116 outdoor dogs (57 females and 59 males) in 8 rura...

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Autores principales: Ahn, Kyu-Sung, Huh, Shin-Eui, Seol, Sang-Woo, Kim, Ha-Jung, Suh, Kuk-Hyun, Shin, SungShik
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29559005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2769-9
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author Ahn, Kyu-Sung
Huh, Shin-Eui
Seol, Sang-Woo
Kim, Ha-Jung
Suh, Kuk-Hyun
Shin, SungShik
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Huh, Shin-Eui
Seol, Sang-Woo
Kim, Ha-Jung
Suh, Kuk-Hyun
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description BACKGROUND: The status of flea infestation in dogs is an important public health concern because of their cosmopolitan distribution worldwide and the flea-borne disease transmission. In the present study, we investigated the flea infestation among 116 outdoor dogs (57 females and 59 males) in 8 rural areas of Jeonnam Province, Republic of Korea. RESULTS: Thirty-three dogs (28.4%) were infested with fleas, and all dogs were infested with Ctenocephalides canis. One dog from Hampyeong was co-infested with Ctenocephalides felis orientis, but no dogs were infested with Ctenocephalides felis felis. The reasons behind this almost exclusive distribution of flea species in dogs from Korea are currently unknown and will require further epidemiological and biological investigations. However, since all dogs investigated in the study were raised in an outdoor environment, the development of flea eggs, larvae and pupae in climatic conditions in Korea might have negatively affected the survival of other flea species. Due to the shoes-off culture and floor-heating system of Korean houses, indoor dogs are rarely infested with fleas in Korea. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report on the distribution survey of flea species infesting dogs in Korea and the first report of C. orientis infesting a dog in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-58595112018-03-20 Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea Ahn, Kyu-Sung Huh, Shin-Eui Seol, Sang-Woo Kim, Ha-Jung Suh, Kuk-Hyun Shin, SungShik Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: The status of flea infestation in dogs is an important public health concern because of their cosmopolitan distribution worldwide and the flea-borne disease transmission. In the present study, we investigated the flea infestation among 116 outdoor dogs (57 females and 59 males) in 8 rural areas of Jeonnam Province, Republic of Korea. RESULTS: Thirty-three dogs (28.4%) were infested with fleas, and all dogs were infested with Ctenocephalides canis. One dog from Hampyeong was co-infested with Ctenocephalides felis orientis, but no dogs were infested with Ctenocephalides felis felis. The reasons behind this almost exclusive distribution of flea species in dogs from Korea are currently unknown and will require further epidemiological and biological investigations. However, since all dogs investigated in the study were raised in an outdoor environment, the development of flea eggs, larvae and pupae in climatic conditions in Korea might have negatively affected the survival of other flea species. Due to the shoes-off culture and floor-heating system of Korean houses, indoor dogs are rarely infested with fleas in Korea. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report on the distribution survey of flea species infesting dogs in Korea and the first report of C. orientis infesting a dog in Korea. BioMed Central 2018-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5859511/ /pubmed/29559005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2769-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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 Short Report
Ahn, Kyu-Sung
Huh, Shin-Eui
Seol, Sang-Woo
Kim, Ha-Jung
Suh, Kuk-Hyun
Shin, SungShik
Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title_full Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title_fullStr Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title_full_unstemmed Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title_short Ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the Republic of Korea
title_sort ctenocephalides canis is the dominant flea species of dogs in the republic of korea
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29559005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2769-9
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