Spatial and temporal distributions of parasites: Can wild and domestic ungulates avoid African tick larvae

Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 455-466

  De Garine Wichatitsky, M ^a,b   De Meeus T ^b   Guegan J F ^b   Renaud, F ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Ecology; Infestation risk; Parasite life cycle; Rhipicephalus spp.; Tick distribution; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ACARI; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HOST; INFECTION RISK; IXODES; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SURVIVAL; TICK; UNGULATE; VEGETATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTELOPES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EQUIDAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; POACEAE; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER; ZIMBABWE;

ACACIA; ACARI; ANIMALIA; IXODES; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI EVERTSI; RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBEZIENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0032746234     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005016     Document Type: Article

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