A comparison of infestation patterns by Ixodes ticks in urban and rural populations of the Common Blackbird Turdus merula

Ibis

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 640-645

  Gregoire, Arnaud ^a   Faivre, Bruno ^a   Heeb, Philipp ^b   Cezilly, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITISM; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TICK;

ACARI; AVES; BORRELIA; IXODES; IXODIDA; PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0036789551     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2002.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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