Brown dog ticks: finds report
Originally from North Africa at the end of the Brown dog tick has been observed in the past years, steadily increasing in Germany. The blood-sucking parasite can multiply in this country in the apartments. The preferred host for the pet the dog, but also other mammals and humans can be stung.
Due to lack of tick prevention on the dog originally from Africa at the end of Brown dog is brought to the tick to Germany. Due to their adaptation to heat and drought, they can survive for long in the apartments and there multiply, explains the University of Hohenheim on your website.
After Germany introduced
In the trip to Europe is currently the time: Even if holiday travel is only possible to a limited extent, should the dog stop and holder make sure to bring any unwanted “Souvenirs” home with them. The speech is of the Brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus). The University of Hohenheim points out in a recent communication.
Originally from North Africa, to arise is to find the animal in the meantime, also in the Mediterranean, and Switzerland. From there you will be introduced from time to time to Germany. “It have also been found already in specimens of dogs, who had to leave their farm,” reports Prof. Dr. Ute Mackenstedt in Parasitology login and tick expert at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.
“So you can be an unintentional holiday gift – a reference to the fact that the kind can may develop already.” For their research, the University of Hohenheim asks the population again this year, findings from the Brown dog tick to report with picture on this website, or if need be, to send.
“It would not be, if the tick comes with adhesive Tape or other adhesives in contact with. This is because the unique mapping we need the fine hairs and surface structures can then be used to detect“, says Katrin Fachet, a PhD student in the field of Parasitology at the University of Hohenheim.
Also humans can become infected
People who have a dog, know this: During an excursion in the forest and meadows, the animal has collected a few unwanted guests “” that should be removed immediately. Because even when ticks are first of all, for man and dog, just unpleasant and annoying, it can transfer some of the specimens also diseases to humans and animals.
Although Brown dog infested with ticks in the first line of dogs and can infect him with various diseases; however, if your preferred host is not available, prick the people and can provide the excitation for the Mediterranean spotted fever.
Carriers typical dog diseases
In the dog, the bite of a single Brown dog causes only minor skin tick most irritations, however, for the Pets, you are considered to be more dangerous than domestic ticks, “because they transfer the typical dog diseases from the Mediterranean area, such as Ehrlichiosis and babesiosis. This here is actually unusual diseases are very dangerous and must often be a dog’s life,“ explained Katrin Fachet in an Interview with the animal rights organisation TASSO e. V..
In addition, a Brown dog tick rarely alone. Often several to many of these pests are sitting very close to each other, when taking their blood meal. “They prefer well-perfused areas of the body of the dog with thin skin, such as ears, Groin, armpits, the back, or the spaces between the Toes,” explains Fachet.
If the ticks with the dog, or his dog bed to be transported to Germany, they can survive indoors for a long and multiply there. Mainly, they are then preferably in the places where the dogs the nights or long periods of rest to spend, such as, for example, the dog bed or in the dog house.
Ticks can survive in the home
The Experts of Parasitology, Hohenheim were in the last two years, from 15 different house in Germany, Brown dog ticks discovered. “Most of these were tourists who came with their dogs from the Mediterranean area or Switzerland,” said Fachet.
And the scientist adds: “In one case, the dog had ticks in holiday accommodation in the Netherlands fetched.” From this we could deduce, however, that they are in Germany have been.
As the communication explains, leaving the ticks after a blood meal, their host, and in crevices and cracks to protect it from environmental influences. Behind baseboards, under floorboards and behind wall paper or in stone walls in the apartment are also to be found.
“Unlike our native Common wood tick, the Brown dog tick to high temperatures and drought and can survive in apartments. Is a dog on-site, it can be quick to Plage,“ explains Katrin Fachet.
“A dog can lay female ticks for up to 5,000 eggs, which within a short period of time, several Thousand ticks can develop,” says Prof. Dr. Mackenstedt. “An apartment is infested by the Brown dog tick ugly, and more than annoying – but that’s no reason to swing the wrecking ball”, underlines the researcher still. “With appropriate measures to get the back in the handle.”
Effective Tick Prevention
In order to let it not get that far, recommend the two Experts, an effective tick prevention, so that the animals can’t be taken home. This could be on appropriate flea / Tick collars or Spot-On preparations, which are applied on the skin, or systemically active agents, such as, for example, chewable tablets. The veterinarian or the veterinarian can advise.
Research is to be continued
Overall, little is as yet, however, the Brown dog tick is known. So you do not know, for example, whether you can survive in Germany, but also outside of the apartments and whether this could be due to the climate changes may be possible. Moreover, it is not yet clear whether they can also be transferred from dog to dog.
How to get the tick here in the first place? What pathogens the animals with? What are the measures to be taken against an infestation in the house or in the apartment can be taken?
These are some questions that want to dedicate themselves to Katrin Fachet in her doctoral work, and: “We want to take care of the affected cases like to – from the beginning to the end of the infestation.” (ad)