Tick infestations of birds in coastal Georgia and Alabama

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-254

  Kinsey, Andrew A ^a   Durden, Lance A ^a   Oliver Jr , James H ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; PARASITE INFESTATION; TICK;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BIRD; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ALABAMA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ARACHNIDA; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAROLINENSIS; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODES BRUNNEUS; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODES MINOR; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS; TOXOSTOMA RUFUM;

EID: 0034032395     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0251:TIOBIC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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