Optimal sampling and spatial distribution of Ixodes pacificus, Dermacentor occidentalis and Dermacentor variabilis ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 233-248

  Li, Xiaohong ^a   Dunley, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Dermacentor; Distribution pattern; Ixodes; Sampling; Tick density

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TICK;

ANIMAL; DERMACENTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IXODES; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DERMACENTOR; IXODES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0032053740     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006018432064     Document Type: Review

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