An update on the ecological distribution of Ixodid ticks infesting cattle in Rwanda: Countrywide cross-sectional survey in the wet and the dry season

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-291

  Bazarusanga, Thomas ^a   Geysen, Dirk ^b   Vercruysse, Jozef ^c   Madder, Maxime ^b  

^a Rwanda Animal Resources Development Authority (RARDA)   (Rwanda)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abundance; Cattle; Distribution; Ecology; Ixodid tick species; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CATTLE; CROSS SECTION; DRY SEASON; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PARASITE INFESTATION; SURVEY; TICK; WET SEASON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; PARASITOLOGY; RWANDA; SEASON; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECOSYSTEM; IXODIDAE; RWANDA; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; RWANDA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS DECOLORATUS; BOS; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS COMPOSITUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI EVERTSI;

EID: 36849088115     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9121-y     Document Type: Article

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