Pulex irritans on Dogs and Cats: Morphological and Molecular Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The painful bite of Pulex irritans; causes wound on the host body and is a vector for Bartonella bacteria species, which can cause trench fever, Rickettsia species, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Mediterranean spotted fever. We conducted a study to find out the hosts, abundance, as well as the molecular characteristics of this flea species in Meshkin-Shahr County, Ardabil Province, northwest of Iran.

Methods

After collecting fleas from different reservoir hosts and transferring them to the laboratory, identification was done using different morphological characters as well as the internal transcribed spacer1 (ITS1) molecular marker.

Results

This morphological study indicated that from the 1053 fleas, which were collected from 162 diff

SUBMITTER: Azarm A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10086450 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature