Tick loads in cattle raised on sweet and sour rangelands in the low-input farming areas of South Africa

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-313

  Marufu, Munyaradzi C ^a   Chimonyo, Michael ^a   Mapiye, Cletos ^a   Dzama, Kennedy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Communal rangelands; Indigenous Nguni breed; Prevalence; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus

Indexed keywords

BOOPHILUS; BOS; HYALOMMA; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI EVERTSI;

EID: 78650993762     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-010-9690-3     Document Type: Article

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