Comparison of two methods for collecting free-living ticks in the Amazonian forest

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 194-196

  Terassini, Flavio A ^a,c   Barbieri, Fabio S ^b   Albuquerque, Saymon ^a   Szabó, Matias P J ^d   Camargo, Luis Marcelo A ^a,c   Labruna, Marcelo B ^c  

^a Faculdade Sao Lucas   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Amblyomma; Dragging; Visual search method

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAGGING; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FOREST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; SAMPLING; TICK; VISUAL SEARCH METHOD;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; IXODIDA;

EID: 78649710576     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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