Survey of ixodid tick species on domestic cats in Japan

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 231-239

  Shimada, Yojiro ^a   Inokuma, Hisashi ^b   Beppu, Takeshi ^b   Okuda, Masaru ^b   Onishi, Takafumi ^b  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cats; Ixodid ticks; Japan

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA TESTUDINARIUM; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; HAEMAPHYSALIS JAPONICA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS MEGASPINOSA; HAIR; INFESTATION; IXODES GRANULATUS; IXODES NIPPONENSIS; IXODES OVATUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; JAPAN; LARVA; NONHUMAN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; HAIR; IXODES; JAPAN; MALE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS MEGASPINOSA; IXODES GRANULATUS; IXODES NIPPONENSIS; IXODES OVATUS; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDAE; JAPONICA; OVATUS;

EID: 0037434457     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00352-7     Document Type: Article

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