Resistance and cross-resistance in rabbits to adults of three species of African ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-165

  Heller Haupt, A ^a,c   Kagaruki, L K ^b   Varma, M G R ^a,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Animal Diseases Research Institute Dar Es Salaam   (Tanzania)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African ticks; Cross resistance; Rabbits; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; RABBIT; TICK;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; RABBITS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 0030093570     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051481     Document Type: Article

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