Ticks and tick-borne disease in Guatemalan cattle and horses

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 119-127

  Teglas, Mike ^a   Matern, Erin ^a   Lein, Sarah ^a   Foley, Patrick ^b   Mahan, Suman M ^c   Foley, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Babesia; Bovine; Equine; Guatemala

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOCENTOR CAJENNENSE; ANOCENTOR NITENS; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA EQUI; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CAPILLARY; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GUATEMALA; HEARTWATER DISEASE; HORSE; HOST; INFESTATION; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; ANOCENTOR NITENS; BABESIA; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; EQUIDAE;

EID: 20444446756     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.04.033     Document Type: Article

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