Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) within various phytophysiognomies of a Cerrado reserve in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-179

  Veronez, Viviane Aparecida ^a   Freitas, Beatriz Zanolli ^b   Olegário, Maria Marlene Martins ^b   Carvalho, William Mendes ^b   Pascoli, Graziela Virginia Tolesano ^b   Thorga, Khelma ^b   Garcia, Marcos Valério ^a   Szabó, Matias Pablo Juan ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cajennense; Brazil; Cerrado; Ixodidae; Phytophysiognomy; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

BIOME; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT SELECTION; LARVA; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; TICK; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); WOODLAND;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM; ANIMALIA; ANOCENTOR NITENS; BOOPHILUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; SEASON; TICK; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; IXODIDAE; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449146403     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9294-7     Document Type: Article

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