Ixodid ticks on indigenous goats owned by small-scale farmers in four communal grazing areas in South Africa

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-30

  Bryson, N R ^a   Tice, G A ^b   Horak, I G ^a   Stewart, C G ^a   du Plessis, B J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SEFAKO MAKGATHO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Lowveld Animal Health   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Communal grazing areas; Indigenous goats; Ixodid ticks; Seasonal occurrence; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOAT; GRAZING; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GOAT DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM; ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; INSECTA; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI EVERTSI;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IXODIDAE; MALE; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0036490724     PISSN: 10199128     EISSN: 22249435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v73i1.544     Document Type: Article

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