Kandai Doi   Takuya Kato   Iori Tabata   Shin-Ichi Hayama   
Insects 12(12) 2021年12月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND: Tick distributions have changed rapidly with changes in human activity, land-use patterns, climate, and wildlife distributions over the last few decades. METHODS: To estimate potential distributions of ticks, we conducted a tick survey...
Kandai Doi   Fumiaki Yamasaki   Takuya Kato   Shin-ichi Hayama   
Acta Arachnologica 70(1) 47-48 2021年6月 [査読有り]
A pseudoscorpion was found in the underfur of a feral raccoon (Procyon lotor) captured in western Tokyo in December 2019. Based on the morphological features, we identified the specimen as Haplochernes sp. This arboreal pseudoscorpio...
Kandai Doi   Minori Kono   Takuya Kato   Shin-Ichi Hayama   
Ticks and tick-borne diseases 12(3) 101687-101687 2021年5月 [査読有り]
The raccoon (Procyon lotor) and masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) are introduced species in Japan and have become abundant in human-inhabited environments. We surveyed tick infestations and tick ingestion by introduced raccoons and masked palm ci...
Preventive veterinary medicine 187 105234-105234 2021年2月 [査読有り]
Since the re-emergence of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 2004, outbreaks of the viral subtypes HPAI, H5N1, H5N8, and H5N6 in wild birds, poultry, and zoo birds have occurred in Japan. In 2008, a nation-wide avian influenza (AI) surv...
The Journal of veterinary medical science 82(9) 1306-1311 2020年9月 [査読有り]
Although kinship (parent-offspring or siblings) contact has been suggested as a driving factor for sarcoptic mange epizootic in raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides), no effect has been reported. In contrast, habitat fragmentation caused by urba...