Distribution and phenology of ixodid ticks in southern Zambia

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 430-441

  Speybroeck, N ^a   Madder, M ^a   Van Den Bossche, P ^a   Mtambo, J ^b   Berkvens, N ^c   Chaka, G ^b   Mulumba, M ^d   Brandt, J ^a   Tirry, L ^b   Berkvens, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Veterinary Service of Zambia Project   (Zambia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d Ctr for Ticks and Tick borne Dis   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Appendiculatus; Epidemiology; Rhipicephalus; Rhipicephalus zambeziensis; Theileria parva; Ticks; Zambia

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CATTLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE CYCLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TICK; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLIMATE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; ZAMBIA;

ZAMBIA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS DECOLORATUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PIROPLASMIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBEZIENSIS; THEILERIA; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIIDAE;

EID: 0036909182     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2002.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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