A survey of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on dairy cattle on the island of Menorca in Spain

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 25, Issue 10-11, 2001, Pages 899-908

  Castella J ^a   Estrada Pena A ^b   Almeria S ^a   Ferrer, D ^a   Gutierrez J ^a   Ortuno A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boophilus; Dairy cattle; Hyalomma; Menorca; Rhipicephalus; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CATTLE; DISEASE VECTOR; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; INFESTATION; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; SPAIN; TICK;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY; IXODIDAE; SEASONS; SPAIN; TICK INFESTATIONS;

SPAIN;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS ANNULATUS; BOS TAURUS; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA LUSITANICUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS;

EID: 0035549722     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020482017140     Document Type: Article

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