Utilisation of rodent species by larvae and nymphs of hard ticks (Ixodidae) in two habitats in NE Poland

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-91

  Paziewska, Anna ^a   Zwolińska, Lucyna ^a   Harris, Philip D ^b   Bajer, Anna ^a   Siński, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dermacentor; Infestation; Ixodes; Rodents; Tick abundance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMIDITY; LARVA; POND; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; TICK; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; LARVA; NYMPH; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

APODEMUS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 71049123569     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9269-8     Document Type: Article

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