Dantas-Torres Filipe, Figueredo Luciana Aguiar, Brandão-Filho Sinval Pinto
Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2006 Jan-Feb;39(1):64-7. doi: 10.1590/s0037-86822006000100012. Epub 2006 Feb 23.
The objective of this paper is to describe four cases of human parasitism by Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latrielle) in Brazil. During an investigation regarding the species of ectoparasites of domestic dogs from the metropolitan region of Recife, Pernambuco state, four dog owners were found to be parasitized by ticks. The ticks were collected from these individuals and their dogs. All the ticks were identified as Rhipicephalus sanguineus . These are, to our knowledge, the first four cases of human parasitism by this tick species in Brazil. The possible implications of this finding are discussed here.
本文的目的是描述巴西4例由血红扇头蜱（拉特雷尔）引起的人体寄生病例。在对伯南布哥州累西腓大都市区家犬体表寄生虫种类进行调查期间，发现4名犬主被蜱虫寄生。蜱虫从这些人和他们的狗身上采集。所有蜱虫均被鉴定为血红扇头蜱。据我们所知，这是巴西首例由该蜱虫种类引起的4例人体寄生病例。本文讨论了这一发现可能产生的影响。
