Unusual findings on host-tick interactions through carnivore scat analysis

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-302

  Rosalino, Luís M ^a,b   Rodrigues, Marina ^a   Santos Silva, Margarida ^c   Santos Reis, Margarida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Portugal; Scat analysis; Ticks

Indexed keywords

CANID; CARNIVORE; DIET; GENET; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PREDATOR; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; FECES; FEMALE; FOX; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARASITOLOGY; PORTUGAL; TICK;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; MALE; PORTUGAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TICK INFESTATIONS; VIVERRIDAE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GENETTA GENETTA; IXODES; IXODES ACUMINATUS; IXODIDA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 36849084609     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9119-5     Document Type: Article

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