Introduced Siberian chipmunks are more heavily infested by ixodid ticks than are native bank voles in a suburban forest in France

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1277-1283

  Pisanu, B ^a   Marsot, M ^a,b   Marmet, J ^a   Chapuis, J L ^a   Reale D ^c   Vourc'h, G ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b EPIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hard ticks; Introduced Siberian chipmunk; Ixodes ricinus; Myodes glareolus; Native bank voles; Suburban forest; Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus barberi; Vector

Indexed keywords

ARACHNID; INTRODUCED SPECIES; JUVENILE; LARVA; PARASITE INFESTATION; PATHOGEN; RODENT; SUBURBAN AREA;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOREST; FRANCE; HABITAT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IXODES RICINUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SQUIRREL; SUBURBAN AREA; SUMMER; TICK; TICK INFESTATION; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; TREE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; FRANCE; MALE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; TREES;

FRANCE;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; TAMIAS SIBIRICUS;

EID: 77954759652     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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