Ticks from a Morelet's crocodile in Belize

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 836-839

  Rainwater, Thomas R ^a   Platt, Steven G ^b   Robbins, Richard G ^c   McMurry, Scott T ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma dissimile; Amblyomma sp.; Case report; Crocodylus moreletii; Ectoparasitism; Morelet's crocodile; Review; Ticks

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BELIZE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; INFESTATION; MALE; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; TICK;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMAL; BELIZE; CASE REPORT; MALE; RAIN; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 0035489450     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-37.4.836     Document Type: Article

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