Amblyomma cajennense ticks induce immediate hypersensitivity in horses and donkeys

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 109-117

  Pablo Juan Szabó, Matias ^a   Carrão Castagnolli, Karina ^b   Álvaro Santana, Danilo ^a   Botelho De Castro, Márcio ^a   Aurélio Romano, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DE FRANCA   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CENTRO OESTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cajennense; Donkey; Horse; Hypersensitivity; Ixodidae

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PATHOGEN; TICK; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EAR; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARASITOLOGY; SKIN TEST; TICK;

ANIMALS; EAR; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IXODIDAE; MALE; SKIN TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; IXODIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 4043112242     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPA.0000030016.33747.99     Document Type: Article

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