Ecología de las miasis: impacto y determinantes de moscas parásitas (Philornis) en pichones de aves.

BELDOMENICO PM

Valdivia

Simposio; III Simposio de la Asociación de Médicos Veterinarios de Fauna Silvestre, en el marco del XVII Congreso Chileno de Medicina Veterinaria; 2012

Universidad Austral de Chile y Asociación de Médicos Veterinarios de Fauna Silvestre

The ecology of parasites that cause myiasis is singular, as they actively seek their hosts over relatively long distances. However, studies that address the determinants of myiasis dynamics are very scarce. Philornis species that cause subcutaneous infection are an excellent model to study myiasis ecology, as they exclusively parasitize bird nestlings, which stay in their nests until they are fully fledged, and larvae remain at the point of entry until the parasitic stage is over, thus allowing collecting sequential individual-level infection data from virtually all the hosts present at a particular area.