Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.
The Gorgas Memorial Health Institute, Panamá City, Panamá.
J Med Entomol. 2021 May 15;58(3):1316-1321. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjaa253.
In total, 341 fleas belonging to 16 species were collected from 78 host mammals belonging to 10 species in Panamá from 2010 to 2016. The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché) predominated on domestic dogs and was also recorded from domestic cats, the raccoon, Procyon lotor (Linnaeus) and the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus. The largest number of flea species (7) was recorded from D. marsupialis and the most common flea on that host was the ctenophthalmid, Adoratopsylla intermedia copha Jordan. One Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild), was collected from D. marsupialis. Native rodents were parasitized by indigenous ceratophyllid, rhopalopsyllid, and stephanocircid fleas. The Mexican deermouse, Peromyscus mexicanus (Saussure), was parasitized by six species of ceratophyllids belonging to the mostly Central American genera, Baculomeris, Jellisonia, Kohlsia and Plusaetis. The long-tailed singing mouse, Scotinomys xerampelinus (Bangs), was parasitized by Plocopsylla scotinomi Tipton and Méndez, the only species of stephanocircid flea known from Central America. Twenty-six pools of extracted flea DNA representing 5 flea species (C. felis, Pulex echidnophagoides (Wagner), Pulex simulans Baker, A. intermedia copha, and P. scotinomi) and 79 individual fleas were all real-time polymerase chain reaction negative for Rickettsia felis, Rickettsia typhi, and Bartonella henselae.
从 2010 年到 2016 年，在巴拿马，从 10 种 78 种宿主哺乳动物身上共采集到 341 种跳蚤，隶属于 16 个种。猫蚤，Ctenocephalides felis（Bouché）在宠物犬中占主导地位，也从宠物猫、浣熊、Procyon lotor（Linnaeus）和普通负鼠、Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 身上记录到。在 D. marsupialis 身上记录到的跳蚤种数最多（7 种），最常见的宿主跳蚤是 Ctenophthalmid，Adoratopsylla intermedia copha Jordan。从 D. marsupialis 身上采集到一只东方鼠蚤， Xenopsylla cheopis（Rothschild）。本地啮齿动物被本地的角花蚤、刺吸蚤和 Stephanocircid 蚤寄生。墨西哥白足鼠，Peromyscus mexicanus（Saussure）被六种 Ceratophyllid 寄生，这些 Ceratophyllid 主要属于中美洲的 Baculomeris、Jellisonia、Kohlsia 和 Plusaetis 属。长尾鸣鼠，Scotinomys xerampelinus（Bangs）被 Plocopsylla scotinomi Tipton 和 Méndez 寄生，这是中美洲已知的唯一一种 Stephanocircid 蚤。26 个提取的跳蚤 DNA 池代表 5 种跳蚤（C. felis、Pulex echidnophagoides（Wagner）、Pulex simulans Baker、A. intermedia copha 和 P. scotinomi）和 79 只单独的跳蚤，实时聚合酶链反应均为阴性，无法检测到猫栉首蚤传播的立克次体、斑疹伤寒立克次体和贝纳柯克斯体。
