Ectoparasites of domesticated animals in a rural Barangay, Davao City, Mindanao Island, Philippines
As the reemergence of maladies in humans caused by bacterial species continues, the need to identify and determine possible routes of infection of bacterial pathogens is necessary. Special focus on the contribution of ectoparasites that infest domesticated animals appears timely especially in sub...
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Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Summary: | As the reemergence of maladies in humans caused by bacterial species continues, the need to
identify and determine possible routes of infection of bacterial pathogens is necessary.
Special focus on the contribution of ectoparasites that infest domesticated animals appears
timely especially in suburban or rural settings where domesticated animals form part of their
communities. It is for this purpose that infested domesticated animals and their associated
ectoparasites of a rural community in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines were accounted.
Ectoparasites were sourced from domesticated animals with hair, feather, and fur and were
extracted manually from the hosts and identified based on morphological features. Fifty host
domesticated animals were inspected, 41 of which were infested with ectoparasites. A total of
433 individuals of ectoparasites were found: 87 (in chicken), 199 (in dogs), 94 (in cat), nine
(in dove), and 44 (in goat) representing 10 species. Except for goats, 41% of the domesticated
animals were infested with more than one species of ectoparasite. Ten species of
ectoparasites were identified with lice species dominating the pool of ectoparasites identified:
Lice- 8; flea - 1; tick -1. All host domesticated animals were infested with at least one louse
species while ticks were found only in dogs, and the flea species extracted only from dogs
and cats. Data suggest the differential distribution of ectoparasites among domesticated
animals in this rural barangay. Moreover, ectoparasites may transfer from one domesticated
animal to another given the occurrence of several ectoparasite species in more than one
inspected domesticated animal. |
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