Tick reservoirs for piroplasms in central and northern Italy

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 170, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 291-296

  Iori, Albertina ^a   Gabrielli, Simona ^a   Calderini, Pietro ^b   Moretti, Annabella ^c   Pietrobelli, Mario ^d   Tampieri, Maria Paola ^e   Galuppi, Roberta ^e   Cancrini, Gabriella ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Babesia; Italy; Theileria; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA RODHAINI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; FEMALE; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PIROPLASMOSIS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI; TICK; TICK INFESTATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA RODHAINI; BABESIA SP.; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953134487     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.02.027     Document Type: Article

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