Seasonal density fluctuations of the exotic ornate kangaroo tick, Amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum Koch, and its distribution on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1203-1208

  Waudby, Helen P ^a   Petit, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; KANGAROO; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; IXODIDAE; LARVA; NYMPH; SEASONS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AMBLYOMMA TRIGUTTATUM; AMBLYOMMA TRIGUTTATUM TRIGUTTATUM; IXODIDA;

EID: 34548555609     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0604-x     Document Type: Article

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