Ornithodoros mimon colonizing a residence in Campinas, state of São Paulo, associated with human parasitism

Authors

  • Glauber Meneses Barboza de Oliveira Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo – SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2426-6626
  • Herbert Sousa Soares Universidade Santo Amaro, São Paulo – SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9887-5408
  • Marcelo Bahia Labruna Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo – SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9675-3132
  • Thiago Fernandes Martins Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo – SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7325-3362

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2023.200741

Keywords:

Anthropophilic, Argasidae, Soft tick

Abstract

Ornithodoros mimon is an argasid tick species usually associated with bats and marsupials and occasionally parasitizes humans inside their homes. This paper reports a tick infestation in a residence in the municipality of Campinas, located in the interior of the state of São Paulo (SP). This report increases O. mimon occurrence in SP and corroborates its anthropophilic activity. Further studies are needed to clarify its role as a vector of pathogens. We highlighted the presence of O. mimon in an area with a large human population (Campinas) associated with synanthropic animals.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Alcantara EP, Ferreira-Silva C, Ávila RW, Pacheco RC, Martins TF, Muñoz-Leal S, Morais DH. Ticks (Acari: Argasidae and Ixodidae) infesting amphibians and reptiles in Northeastern Brazil. Syst Appl Acarol. 2018;23(8):1497-508. http://doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.8.1.

Barros-Battesti DM, Arzua M, Bechara GH. Carrapatos de importância médico-veterinária da região neotropical: um guia ilustrado para identificação de espécies. São Paulo: International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (ICTTD-3), Instituto Butantan; 2006. 223 p.

Barros-Battesti DM, Landulfo GA, Onofrio VC, Faccini JLH, Marcili A, Nieri-Bastos FA, Venzal JM, Labruna MB. Carios mimon (Acari: Argasidae): description of adults and redescription of larva. Exp Appl Acarol. 2011;54(1):93-104. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-010-9416-2. PMid:21161720.

Costa FB, Martins TF, Muñoz-Leal S, de Azevedo Serpa MC, Ogrzewalska M, Luz HR, Barros-Battesti DM, de Carvalho Mesquita ETK, da Costa AP, Maria Seabra Nogueira R, Labruna MB. Retrospective and new records of ticks (Acari: Argasidae, Ixodidae) from the state of Maranhão, an Amazon-Cerrado transition area of Brazil. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Rep. 2020;21:100413. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.vprsr.2020.100413. PMid:32862893.

Dantas-Torres F, Marzochi MCA, Muñoz-Leal S, Sales KGS, Sousa-Paula LC, Moraes-Filho J, Labruna MB. Ornithodoros cf. mimon infected with a spotted fever group Rickettsia in Brazil. Acta Trop. 2022;233:106541. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106541. PMid:35623399.

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica – IBGE. Estimativas da população residente para os municípios e para as unidades da federação [Internet]. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE; 2021 [cited 2021 May 26]. Available from: www.ibge.gov.br

Jorge FR, De Oliveira LMB, Magalhães MML, Weck B, De Oliveira GMB, Serpa MCA, Moura FBP, Lopes Júnior RS, dos Santos JML, Teixeira BM, Muñoz-Leal S, Labruna MB. New records of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) in the Caatinga biome of Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of argasids using the nuclear Histone 3 (H3) gene. Exp Appl Acarol. 2022;86(4):567-81. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-022-00709-8. PMid:35305191.

Kohls GM, Clifford CM, Jones EK. The systematics of the subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae). IV. Eight new species of Ornithodoros from the Western Hemisphere. Ann Entomol Soc Am. 1969;62(5):1035-43. http://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/62.5.1035.

Labruna MB, Marcili A, Ogrzewalska M, Barros-Battesti DM, Dantas-Torres F, Fernandes AA, Leite RC, Venzal JM. New records and human parasitism by Ornithodoros mimon (Acari: Argasidae) in Brazil. J Med Entomol. 2014;51(1):283-7. http://doi.org/10.1603/ME13062. PMid:24605480.

Landulfo GA, Pevidor LV, Dos Santos Sampaio J, Luz HR, Onofrio VC, Faccini JL, Barros-Battesti DM. Life cycle of Ornithodoros mimon (Acari: Argasidae) under laboratory conditions. Exp Appl Acarol. 2012;58(1):69-80. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-012-9567-4. PMid:22570058.

Muñoz-Leal S, Faccini-Martínez ÁA, Teixeira BM, Martins MM, Serpa MCA, Oliveira GMB, Jorge FR, Pacheco RC, Costa FB, Luz HR, Labruna MB. Relapsing fever group borreliae in human-biting soft ticks, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021;27(1):322-4. http://doi.org/10.3201/eid2701.200349. PMid:33350927.

Ramos DGDS, Melo ALT, Martins TF, Alves A, Pacheco TA, Pinto LB, Pinho JB, Labruna MB, Dutra V, Aguiar DM, Pacheco RC. Rickettsial infection in ticks from wild birds from Cerrado and the Pantanal region of Mato Grosso, midwestern Brazil. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2015;6(6):836-42. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.07.013. PMid:26232933.

Sponchiado J, Melo GL, Martins TF, Krawczak FS, Labruna MB, Cáceres NC. Association patterns of ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae, argasidae) of small mammals in cerrado fragments, western Brazil. Exp Appl Acarol. 2015;65(3):389-401. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-014-9877-9. PMid:25633262.

Downloads

Published

2023-03-20

Issue

Vol. 60 (2023)

Section

CASE REPORT

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The journal content is authorized under the Creative Commons  BY-NC-SA  license (summary of the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 | full text of the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode) 

Funding data

How to Cite

1.
Oliveira GMB de, Soares HS, Labruna MB, Martins TF. Ornithodoros mimon colonizing a residence in Campinas, state of São Paulo, associated with human parasitism. Braz. J. Vet. Res. Anim. Sci. [Internet]. 2023 Mar. 20 [cited 2024 Apr. 19];60:e200741. Available from: https://www.revistas.usp.br/bjvras/article/view/200741