Mediterranean theileriosis and other tick transmitted piroplasmoses in cattle in minorca (Balearic Islands, Spain): The effect of tick control on prevalence levels analyzed by reverse line blot (Rlb) macroarrays

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 598-603

  Almería, Sonia ^a   Delgado Neira, Yolanda ^a   Adelantado, Carles ^a   Huguet, Marian ^a,b   Vinent, Joan ^a,b   Nicolàs, Antoni ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^b Polígon Industrial de Llinaritx ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

CATTLE; ENDEMISM; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITIC DISEASE; TICK; VACCINATION;

ARTICLE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PIROPLASMOSIS; REVERSE LINE BLOT MACROARRAY; SPAIN; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIOSIS; TICK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD; CATTLE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINORCA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BOS; IXODIDA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA BUFFELI;

ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THEILERIASIS; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 73949104686     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1687.1     Document Type: Article

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