• DOI:10.1590/S0074-02762003000900027
Corpus ID: 24044618

Ecological analysis of acari recovered from coprolites from archaeological site of northeast Brazil.

@article{Guerra2003EcologicalAO,
  title={Ecological analysis of acari recovered from coprolites from archaeological site of northeast Brazil.},
  author={Rita de Maria Seabra Nogueira de Candanedo Guerra and G. S. Gaz{\^e}ta and M. Amorim and A. Duarte and N. Serra-Freire},
  journal={Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz},
  year={2003},
  volume={98 Suppl 1},
  pages={
          181-90
        }
}

• Rita de Maria Seabra Nogueira de Candanedo Guerra, G. S. Gazêta, +2 authors N. Serra-Freire
• Published 2003
• Biology, Medicine
• Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Coprolite samples of human and animal origin from the excavations performed at the archaeological site of Furna do Estrago, at Brejo da Madre de Deus in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil and sent to the Paleoparasitology Laboratory at Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, were analyzed for mites. After rehydratation and sedimentation of the coprolites, the alimentary contents and the sediments were examined and the mites collected and prepared in definitive whole mounts, using… Expand