Journal Pre-proof Records of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on humans and distribution of spotted-fever cases and its tick vectors in Paran´ a State, southern Brazil Jessica D.M. Valente (Data curation) (Formal analysis) (Methodology) (Writing - original draft) (Writing - review and editing), Patr´ ıcia W. Silva (Data curation) (Methodology) (Resources), M´ arcia Arzua (Data curation) (Methodology) (Resources), Darci M. Barros-Battesti (Data curation) (Methodology) (Resources), Thiago F. Martins (Formal analysis) (Methodology) (Writing - review and editing), Aparecida M. Silva (Data curation) (Methodology), Th ´ allitha S.W.J. Vieira (Conceptualization) (Methodology) (Supervision), Marcelo B. Labruna (Conceptualization) (Writing - review and editing), Rafael F.C. Vieira (Conceptualization) (Project administration) (Resources) (Supervision) (Writing - original draft) (Writing - review and editing) PII: S1877-959X(19)30549-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101510 Reference: TTBDIS 101510 To appear in: Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases Received Date: 23 December 2019 Revised Date: 15 May 2020 Accepted Date: 7 July 2020 Please cite this article as: Valente JDM, Silva PW, Arzua M, Barros-Battesti DM, Martins TF, Silva AM, Vieira TSWJ, Labruna MB, Vieira RFC, Records of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on humans and distribution of spotted-fever cases and its tick vectors in Paran´ a State, southern Brazil, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101510