Co-distribution pattern of a haemogregarine hemolivia mauritanica (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) and its Vector hyalomma aegyptium (Metastigmata: Ixodidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 728-733

  Široký, Pavel ^a   Mikulíček, Peter ^a,b,c   Jandzík, David ^a,b   Kami, Hajigholi ^a,d   Mihalca, Andrei D ^a,e   Rouag, Rachid ^a,f   Kamler, Martin ^a   Schneider, Christoph ^a   Záruba, Martin ^a   Modrý, David ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^f 7 Rue Beauharnais ^*  (Algeria)

^g INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; JUVENILE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PROTOZOAN; SEX RATIO; TICK; TURTLE;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOLIVIA MAURITANICA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TICK; TURTLE; AFRICA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE EAST; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA; SEX RATIO; TICK INFESTATION;

BALKANS; IRAN; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MOROCCO; SOUSS VALLEY; SOUSS-MASSA-DRAA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

APICOMPLEXA; HEMOLIVIA; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO; TESTUDO GRAECA;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; ARACHNID VECTORS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; ROMANIA; SEX RATIO; TICK INFESTATIONS; TURTLES;

EID: 73949131761     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1842.1     Document Type: Article

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