Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago: An Overview explores tick species popular in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), their distribution, linked pathogens, their results at the host, and keep watch over tools. The publication additionally experiences the fundamental biology of ticks.

Ticks are recognized to parasitize quite a lot of hosts together with mammals, reptiles and birds. those parasites are of veterinary and public well-being importance when you consider that they're accountable for the unfold of a couple of pathogens to people and animals. around the world, ticks are answerable for billions of greenbacks in losses within the farm animals each year as a result of the results of those pathogens.

Based on assessment of the literature from greater than 5 many years, twenty-three species of either not easy and smooth tick were found at the twin-island republic with a better variety of species in Trinidad. Tick genera saw and recorded incorporated Argas, Ornithodoros, Amblyomma, Dermacentor, Haemaphysalis, Ixodes, and Rhipicephalus species.

The tick species present in Trinidad and Tobago parasitize either wild and family species. Hosts contain bats, chicken, equids, wild and family ruminants, birds, rodents, marsupials, and quite a few reptiles resembling toads, tortoises, and snakes. according to geographical position, such a lot tick species came upon in T&T have additionally been recorded in different Caribbean islands within the archipelago, North, imperative and South the US. either tender and tough tick species present in T&T have additionally been implicated in a few blood-borne pathogens together with Borrelia, Ehrlichia, Babesia, Hepatozoon, Rickettsia, and Anaplasma.

• Examines the biology of tick species on hosts endemic to Trinidad and Tobago
• Provides pictorial keys
• Facilitates identity, prevention, and keep watch over of tick-borne illnesses within the tropical region
• Assists with diagnosing tick-borne diseases