Ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) parasitising humans in Uruguay

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 769-772

  Venzal, J M ^a   Guglielmone, A A ^b   Estrada Pena A ^c   Cabrera, P A ^a   Castro, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA TIGRINUM; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK; URUGUAY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; URUGUAY;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA TIGRINUM; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 0344553311     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803225002327     Document Type: Article

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