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First record of Eutrombicula tinami (Oudemans, 1910) (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae) parasitizing a cat in Brazil

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Chigger mites are ectoparasites of terrestrial tetrapods and can cause dermatitis in the host, known as trombiculiasis. In Brazil, there are 73 species of chiggers; however, cats never have recorded as a host in this country. Here, we report the first record of chiggers parasitizing a domestic cat in Brazil; and a new locality for Eutrombicula tinami (Oudemans 1910) in the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

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Acknowledgments

To Gabrielle Ribeiro de Andrade and Maria Cristina Ferreira do Rosário for technical contribution.

Funding

This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico under the Grant CNPq Nos. 377343/2015-3, 377342/2015-7, 440639/2015-8, 454907/2014-1, and 377976/2014-8 (DMB-B) and CNPq No. 377976/2014-8 (FCJ) and by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo under the Grant FAPESP Nos. 2010/51875-9 (DMB-B) and 2017/01416-7 and 2018/24667-8 (RB-S). This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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  1. Clínica Veterinária Saúde Animal, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil

    G. Cousandier

  2. Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, FMVZ-USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    R. Bassini-Silva, M. Huang-Bastos & D. M. Barros-Battesti

  3. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    R. Bassini-Silva & F. C. Jacinavicius

  4. Departamento de Patologia Veterinária, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil

    D. M. Barros-Battesti

  5. Laboratório de Parasitologia Veterinária, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil

    L. L. Dias de Castro

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GC and LLDC made the field observations, collected samples, and preliminarily identified the specimens; RB-S, MH-B, and FCJ mounted and identified the specimens and made the bibliographic compilation; and DMB-B, FCJ, and LLDC wrote and edited the manuscript.

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Cousandier, G., Bassini-Silva, R., Huang-Bastos, M. et al. First record of Eutrombicula tinami (Oudemans, 1910) (Trombidiformes: Trombiculidae) parasitizing a cat in Brazil. Parasitol Res 120, 337–339 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06974-z

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