Enhancement of risk of tick-borne infection: Environmental and parasitological aspects of the problem

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 812-815

  Alekseev, Andrey N ^a   Dubinina, Helen V ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Environmental pollution; Ixodes ticks anomalies; Tick born pathogens; Vectorial capacity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INFESTATION; IXODES; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IXODES; PREVALENCE; RUSSIA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

IXODES; IXODIDA;

EID: 49249102256     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[812:EOROTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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