Tick ecology: Processes and patterns behind the epidemiological risk posed by ixodid ticks as vectors

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Randolph, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic processes; Ecology; Epidemiology; Population models; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAPAUSE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; LIFE CYCLE; MOISTURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IXODIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ACARI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS;

EID: 20344378211     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004004925     Document Type: Review

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