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Provedor de dados: | 52
País: | Brazil
Título: | Evaluation of the possible role of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as mechanical vectors of nematodes and protists
Autores: | Villani,Fabio; Morini,Maria Santina de Castro; Franco,Marco Antonio; Bueno,Odair Correa.
Data: | 2008-10-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Ascaris lumbricoides; Entamoeba coli; Ant; Mechanical vector.
Resumo: | Nematodes and protists can be transmitted to humans in many ways and little concern has been given to the mechanical transmission by ants. This study aimed at analysing how the eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides and cysts of Entamoeba coli could be mechanically transmitted to the man by Formicidae. Through the experiments using nests of Tapinoma melanocephalum, Linepithema humile and Monomorium pharaonis reared in the laboratory allied to observations of some 17 ant species in an urban park area in Mogi das Cruzes (SP), it was found that L. humile was capable of carrying eggs of A. lumbricoides both in the field and laboratory conditions (1 worker), as well as was Camponotus rufipes (2), Solenopsis saevissima (1) and Acromyrmex niger (1). The cysts of Escherichia coli were found over three workers of C. rufipes. Although the frequency of the workers found transporting pathogens was low, the capacity of common household species in carrying pathogens like nematodes and protists was demonstrated.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132008000500008
Editor: | Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-89132008000500008
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology  v.51 n.5 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess