Amblyomma maculatum

Am·bly·om·ma ma·cu·la·'tum

the Gulf Coast tick, a species that is a pest of livestock in the southeastern U.S.

Amblyomma

a genus of ticks of the family Ixodidae.
Amblyomma americanum
a three-host tick which causes painful bites and tick paralysis and transmits Q fever, tularemia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever of humans. Called also the lone star tick.
Amblyomma cajennense
a three-host tick that transmits spotted fever of human and leptospirosis due to L. pomona. Called also cayenne tick.
Amblyomma hebraeum
a three-host tick that transmits Ehrlichia ruminantium, the cause of heartwater. It also causes severe bite wounds. Called also bont tick.
Amblyomma maculatum
a three-host tick which causes paralysis but does not transmit disease. Called also Gulf coast tick.
Amblyomma pomposum
a three-host tick, a vector for Ehrlichia ruminantium, the cause of heartwater.
Amblyomma variegatum
a three-host tick which transmits Ehrlichia ruminantium, the cause of heartwater, Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) and Nairobi sheep disease. Called also variegated or tropical bont tick.
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Ralph Robinson Parker isolated R parkeri from Amblyomma maculatum, commonly known as the Gulf Coast tick.
Emerging tick-borne Rickettsia and Ehrlichia at joint base Langley-Eustis, fort Eustis, Virginia
parkeri, recently recognized as a pathogen of humans, is transmitted by Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast) ticks (Figure).
Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis--Georgia, 2012-2014
El principal vector es la garrapata Amblyomma maculatum (1).
La ayuda diagnostica es importante: caso de hepatozoon spp
Ornithonyssus sylviarum was the most prevalent mite (65%), while Amblyomma maculatum was the most abundant tick (75%) among wild grey partridges (Table II).
Prevalence of Ectoparasites in Wild and Domesticated Grey (Francolinus pondicerianus) and Black Partridges (Francolinus francolinus) from Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province of Pakistan
En Uruguay en 1990, se presentaron casos de Fiebre manchada diagnosticados por IFI en los cuales el vector incriminado fue la garrapata Amblyomma maculatum, que fue recolectada de mascotas caninas (85).
Rickettsiosis, una enfermedad letal emergente y re-emergente en Colombia
Rickettsia parkeri, the causative agent of disease, was initially isolated from the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum, in 1937.
Recognizing reemerging and recently described rickettsial infections in the United States
tigrinum fue descrito por Koch (1844) en Brasil como sinonimo de Amblyomma maculatum, hasta que en 1959 se efectuo una revision concluyendose que A.
Morfologia de Amblyomma tigrinum (Arthropoda: Ixodidae) por microscopia electronica de barrido
Este es el primer reporte de Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus y Amblyomma maculatum Figura 1 dentro de la ciudad de Bogota ectoparasitando a Canis familiaris y aunque se hallo 1 garrapata por canino, la tasa de infestacion por estos artropodos fue 4,25%, una alta tasa por tratarse de animales de compania, domiciliados, vinculados a planes de atencion sanitaria, en una ciudad del tropico americano con altura de 2640 msnm, donde no se habian descrito antes.
Garrapatas (Acari: Ixodidae) prevalentes en caninos no migrantes del noroccidente de Bogota, Colombia
1998a) observed that Dermacentor variabilis, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Amblyomma maculatum and Amblyomma cajennense were susceptible to infection by Steinernema feltiae and Steinernema riobravus.
Evaluation in vitro of the infection times of engorged females of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus by the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema glaseri CCA strain/Avaliacao in vitro dos tempos de infeccao de femeas ingurgitadas de Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus pelo nematoide entomopatogenico Steinernema glaseri estirpe CCA
Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Gulf Coast tick) has been reported throughout the southeastern United States, California, and Arizona (Goddard & Norment 1983) and on various animals including cattle, deer, mesocarnivores, and ground dwelling birds (Tugwell & Lancaster 1962).
Establishment of amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick) in Arkansas, U.S.A
Attempted transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis among white-tailed deer by Amblyomma maculatum.
Tick-borne ehrlichiosis infection in human beings
Key words: Costa Rica, Amblyomma cajennense, Amblyomma maculatum, population dynamics.
Abundancia relativa de Amblyomma spp. (Acari: Ixodidae) en bovinos (Bos taurus y B. indicus) de Costa Rica

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