Dog Tick (Rhipicephalus Sanguineus)

Phenotypic identification of Arthropod-Borne Diseases

Dr BITAM Idir © by author Medical Entomologist ESCMID Online Lecture Library © by author ESCMID Online Lecture Library © by author ESCMID Online Lecture Library Dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)

• Mite-borne Rickettsiosis • Rickettsialpox

BTS traps types

Sherman traps types © by author ESCMID Online Lecture Library

Meriones shawii captured by BTS © by author

FLOODING CAPTURE ESCMID Online Lecture Library

Another method of catching rodents captured by flooding, the principle of this technique consist in using of water in the burrows of rodents, it is know that a wild rodent burrow is made up to 5 holes so it can saves himself in case there would intrusion of another animal in the burrow! the technique involves closing three holes and leave two holes, we push a water in one of the hole and throw water into the burrow, knowing that rodents cannot tolerate water, they go out automatically from their burrows and catchers await for exit of rodents and catch them by hand wearing leather gloves 1

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Legends: Life cycle of the cat fleas Ctenocephalides felis 1: Adulta (Female : 4 mm long) Male: 2-3 mm long Take several blood meals daily 2: Eggs (White: 0.5 mm long) Eggs laid on pet (25 – 40 eggs per day) Egg fall of pet and hatch in environment. Hatch in 2-5 days 3: First stage larva: 1-2 mm long Second stage larva: 2-3 mm long Third stage larva: 3-5 mm long 4: Pupa (2-4 mm long) Pupa in silk cocoon with debris collected on outside. 5: Fleas emerge 1-2 weeks in environment. Delayed emergence up to 4 months.

Rat flea: Xenopsylla cheopis

ESCMIDFleas(Chips) Online are generally Lecture found at the level Library of the snout of the rats which grind autours of the henhouses

Nosopsyllus fasciatus (Bosc, 1800) NORTHERN RAT FLEA

The parasitic flea lives in soil and sand, and feeds intermittently on warm- blooded hosts, such as humans, cattle, sheep, dogs, mice (but apparently not rats), and other animals. Males leave the host after a blood meal like other fleas, but the female flea burrows © by author head-first into the host's skin, leaving the caudal tip of its abdomenESCMID visible through Online Lecture Library an orifice in a skin lesion.