Tick fauna from two locations in the Brazilian savannah

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-84

  Szabó, Matias Pablo Juan ^a   Olegário, Maria Marlene Martins ^a   Santos, André Luiz Quagliatto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cerrado; Ixodidae; Savannah

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIFE CYCLE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAMMAL; RAINFOREST; REPTILE; SAVANNA; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CATTLE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; CATTLE; DOGS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; TICKS;

ARAGUAPAZ; BRAZIL; GOIAS; NOVA CRIXAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AURICULARIUM; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA NAPONENSE; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA ROTUNDATUM; ANIMALIA; ANOCENTOR NITENS; ANURA; ARMADILLO; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS; BUBALUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; EQUIDAE; GEOCHELONE CARBONARIA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RATTUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SPILOTES PULLATUS PULLATUS;

EID: 34548699949     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9096-8     Document Type: Article

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