Report of activities 2004 – 2005 Efraín Benavides O. CORPOICA -CEISA Centro de Investigación en Salud Animal CEISA RedEctopar Red Electrónica de Garrapatas y Enfermedades Transmitidas por Garrapatas para América Latina y el Caribe Report of activities 2004 – 2005 Efraín Benavides O. CORPOICA -CEISA

Red de Garrapatas y Enfermedades Transmitidas por Garrapatas para América Latina y El Caribe Network on Ticks and Tick-borne diseases for Latin America and the Caribbean.  Financed by FAO Animal Health Service Agreement CORPOICA-FAO, 1999 - 2005 Advisers: Carlos Eddi, DVM, PhD. Armando Nari, DVM, MSc. Editors: Efraín Benavides O. & Melissa Garay Address: http://web.andinet.com/redectopar/ CORPORACION COLOMBIANA DE INVESTIGACION AGROPECUARIA -CORPOICA- Programa Salud Animal

Objectives To create a Net of professionals and institutions who are working on research, epidemiology diagnosis and control of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Latin America and The Caribean. Allow interaction among net members and exchange of updated Information. Facilitate participation and discussion about one o more relevant themes through annual electronic confereces

“Network on Ticks & T.B. diseases for Latin America and The Caribbean” It was established in mid 1999 as a joint effort of FAO and CORPOICA (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria) and is coordinated by Efraín Benavides O. DMV., MSc., PhD. The agreement was renovated in 2001, 2003 and 2005 The Network, through the web site offers to members and visitors information (in Spanish) on the people, who at the regional level, is involved in this subject, events and links, as well as an electronic bulletin and an electronic conference. Members receive automatically related news.

RedEctopar Web Page (s)

http://web.andinet.com/redectopar/

http://www.corpoica.org.co/

Link Redectopar

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redectopar/

Visits RedEctopar CORPOICA 2003-2004

Visits RedEctopar ANDINET 2004-2005

Electronic Conferences 2004 -2005 Actualización de conocimientos regionales sobre la resistencia a los antiparasitarios y herramientas alternativas de control parasitario Situación Actual de la Resistencia a Los Ixodicidas en México (Fragoso SH., Martínez I.F., Ortiz N.A) Consideraciones Epidemiológicas, Impacto Económico y Alternativas Inmunoprofilácticas para La Anaplasmosis y Babesiosis Bovinas en Colombia (Vizcaíno O & Benavides E). Hemoparasitosis en América Latina: El Caso Venezuela (Rey C) General Aspects of Horn Fly Control and Insecticide Resistance with Emphasis in Latin America (Barros T). Control Sostenible de Moscas y Garrapatas que Afectan al Ganado en Latinoamérica “Programas de Control Integrado de Garrapatas en Ganado: Un examen de algunos posibles componentes”; Nicholas Jonsson, Universidad de Queensland: “ “El mejor Uso de Acaricidas y de Métodos Validados de Control de las garrapatas. Un Punto de Vista Australiano”, David Kemp, CSIRO- Australia.

Redectopar, Perspectives Include information of reference centers in the webpage A forum for papers on the subject More information on IPM experiences in the region A pictured key for identification of ticks is being produced with G. Lopez Participate in discussions about harmonization of registration of new alternatives for control

Efraín Benavides Ortiz 1 & Gustavo López Valencia 2 Clave Pictórica para la Identificación de los Principales Ectoparásitos de Animales Domésticos y Silvestres en Colombia Efraín Benavides Ortiz 1 & Gustavo López Valencia 2 1 Médico Veterinario, MSc., PhD. Programa de Salud Animal, CORPOICA 2 Médico Veterinario, MSc. Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Antioquia

Clave Pictórica

Garrapatas Duras y Blandas Las garrapatas se dividen en dos familias: Ixodidae o garrapatas duras y Argasidae o garrapatas blandas La familia ixodidae esta representada por los géneros Amblyomma, Boophilus, Dermacentor (Anocentor), Haemaphisalis, Ixodes y Rhipicephalus.

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