Virtual Tick Museum

Credits and Acknowledgements

 

Credits

Authors of this database (October 2004 version) are: Agustin Estrada Peña , Alberto A. Guglielmone, Ali Bouattour, Jean-Louis Camicas, Ivan Horak, Abdalla Latif, Rupert Pegram, Patricia Preston, Alan R. Walker,  Darci Barros-Battesti, Marcelo B. Labruna, José Manuel Venzal and Ard Nijhof.

  • Agustin Estrada-Peña is a Senior Lecturer in Parasitology at the Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Spain 
  • Alberto A. Guglielmone is Senior Researcher in INTA, Rafaela, Argentina
  • Ali Bouattour is Head of the Unit of Medical Entomology, Institut Pasteur of Tunis, Tunisia
  • Jean-Louis Camicas is Head of the Laboratory of Medical Acarology, Centre I.R.D., Montpellier, France
  • Ivan Horak is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
  • Abdalla Latif is Head of the Parasitology division of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa
  • Rupert Pegram is Director of the Caribbean Amblyomma Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, Bridgetown, Barbados
  • Patricia Preston is a Senior Lecturer in Parasitology at the Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Alan R. Walker is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Darci Barros-Battesti is Senior Researcher in Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Marcelo B. Labruna is Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • José Manuel Venzal is a Lecturer in Parasitology in the Veterinary Faculty, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Ard Nijhof is a PhD student at the department of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

 

Acknowledgements

 

The World VTM contains original and unpublished records of many collaborators.

 

Authors are most grateful to everybody who collaborated in the development of this database.

Most of the records were typed from the original reference by Nely Sánchez, working at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).

 

Claudine Pérez-Eid (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) provided information on records stored in the huge database of the Pasteur Museum in Paris.

 

One of the authors (R.P.) contributed with a valuable database of ticks from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

 

One of the authors (I.H.) and Heloyse Heines (Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa) provided the most complete database of ticks collected in South Africa and neighboring countries.

 

Data from the collection currently hosted by the University of Edinburgh was carefully collated by one of the authors (P.P.).

 

Trevor Peter provided information about the distribution of Amblyomma variegatum and A. hebraeum in Zimbabwe.

 

Daniele de Meneghi (University of Turin, Italy) provided detailed data on ticks from cattle in the Republic of Guinea.

Matías Szabó (Faculdade de Ciencias Agrarias y Veterinarias, Universidades Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Joao R. Martins (Centro de Pesquisas Veterinárias Desidério Finamor, Eldorado do Sul, Brazil) provided information on many records of ticks from Brazil.

 

Daniel Aguirre (INTA Salta, Argentina), Pablo Beldoménico (Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Esperanza, Argentina), Carlos Luciani (INTA Colonia Benítez, Argentina) and Atilio Mangold (INTA Rafaela, Argentina) provided useful information about ticks from Argentina.

 

Víctor Alvarez and Víctor Hernández (Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José, Costa Rica) compiled records for Costa Rica and other countries.

 

Rafael de la Vega (LABIOFAM, Ciudad Habana, Cuba) and Frantisek Dusbábek (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic) gave valuable information for Cuba.

 

Daniel González Acuña (Veterinary Faculty, University of Concepción, Chillian, Chile) provided data concerning ticks in Chile.

 

Roy Meléndez (Veterinary Faculty, Universidad Centro-Occidental, Barquisimeto, Venezuela) provided data on ticks in Venezuela.

 

Records concerning the Iberian Peninsula were originally assembled by A. Estrada-Peña.

 

More data on the Iberian Peninsula was obtained from Joaquim Castellà (University of Bellaterra, Spain) Miguel A. Habela (University of Extremadura, Spain), A. García Pérez, M. Barral and R. Juste (Naiker, Spain), L. Hueli and P. García Fernández (University of Granada, Spain), M. Santos Silva, S. Núncio and F. Bacellar (CEVDI, Aguas de Moura, Portugal) and V. Caeiro (University of Evora, Portugal).

We are very grateful to Claudio Genchi (Veterinary Faculty, Milan, Italy), Byron Papadopoulos, Claudine Pérez-Eid (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France).

 

I. Bitam (Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Institut Pasteur d'Alger) provided valuable information from ticks in Algeria.

 

M. Sarih (Institut Pasteur de Casablanca, Morocco) provided with data on ticks in Morocco.

 

The collaborative compilation of this database has been fundamental to its nature and has been made possible by the ICTTD, funded by the European Union, coordinated by prof. Frans Jongejan (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) and administered by Jona Verbeek and Hans Nieuwenhuijs.