Effect of Hyalomma ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on milk production of dairy buffaloes (Bos bubalus bubalis) of Punjab (Pakistan)

Italian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 939-941

  Sajid, M S ^a   Iqbal, Z ^a   Khan, M N ^a   Muhamamd, G ^a   Iqbal, M U ^b  

^a National University of Agricultural Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bos bubalus bubalis; Hyalomma; Pakistan; Ticks

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249113128     PISSN: 15944077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ijas.2007.s2.939     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Anonymous, 1998. Ticks and tick-borne disease strategy paper. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Livestock Department, Tanzania.
2. Corrier, D. E., O. Vizcaino, M. Terry, A. Betancourt, K. L. Kuttler, C. A. Carson, G. Trevino and M. Ristic, 1979. Mortality, weight loss and anaemia in Bos taurus calves exposed to Boophilus microplus ticks in the tropics of Colombia. Trop. Anim. Hlth. Prod., 11: 611-612.
3. French, M. P., J. Tyrer and W. M. Hirst, 2001. Smallholder dairy farming in the Chikwaka communal land, Zimbabwe: birth, death and demographic trends. Prev. Vet. Med., 48: 101-112.
4. Hourrigan, J. L., 1979. Spread and detection of Psoroptic scabies of cattle in the United States. J. Amer. Vet. Assoc. 175, 1278-1280.
5. Jongejan, F. and G. Uilenberg, 2004. The global importance of ticks. Parasitol., 129: S3-S14.
6. Jonsson, N. N., 2006. The Productivity effects of cattle tick (Boophilus microplus) infestation on cattle, with particular reference to Bos indicus cattle and their crosses. Vet. Parasitol., 137: 1-10.
7. Jonsson, N. N., D. G. Mayer, A. L. Matschoss, P. E. Green and J. Ansell, 1998. Production effects of cattle tick (Boophilus microplus) infestation of high yielding dairy cows. Vet. Parasitol., 78: 65-77.
8. Meltzer, M. I., B. D. Perry and P. L. Donachie, 1996. Mortality percentages related to heartwater and economic impact of heartwater disease on large-scale commercial farms in Zimbabwe. Prev. Vet. Med., 26: 187-199.
9. Mukhebi, A. W., T. Chamboko, C. J. O'Callaghan, T. F. Peter, R. L. Kruska, G. F. Medley, S. M. Mahan and B. D. Perry, 1999. An assessment of the economic impact of heartwater (Cowardia ruminantum infection) and its control in Zimbabwe. Prev. Vet. Med., 39: 173-189.
10. Niyonzema, A. and H. H. Kiltz, 1986. Control of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Burundi. ACIAR Proc. No. 17: 16-17.
11. Norval, R. A. I., B. H. Fivaz, J. A. Lawrence and A. F. Brown, 1984. Epidemiology of tick-borne diseases of cattle in Zimbabwe. Trop. Anim. Hlth. Prod., 16: 63-70.
12. Pegram, R. G. and G. P. M. Oosterwijk, 1990. The effect of Amblyomma variegatum on liveweight gain of cattle in Zambia. Med. Vet. Entomol., 4: 327-330.
13. Scholtz, M. M. A. M. Spickett, P. E. Lombard and C. B. Enslin, 1991. The effect of tick infestation on the productivity of cows of three breeds of cattle. Onderstepoort J. Vet. Res., 58: 71-74.
14. StatSoft Inc., 1999. Statistica for Wndows (Computer program manual). Tulsa: OK.
15. Thrusfield, M., 1995. Veterinary Epidemiology. Blackwell Science Limited, U. S. A. pp: 180-81.
16. Ul'yanova, N. I., M. A. Bessonova, V. V. Zakharova, K. N. Klenov and O. I. Sukhomlinova, 1969. Ixodid ticks of the Leningrad region as reservoir of some bacterial diseases of man and animals. Parasitol. Leningrad, 3: 223-227.