A campaign to eradicate bovine babesiosis from New Caledonia

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-61

  Barré, Nicolas ^a   Happold, Jonathan ^b   Delathière, Jean Michel ^c   Desoutter, Denise ^d   Salery, Mariette ^e   de Vos, Albertus ^f   Marchal, Céline ^d   Perrot, Roseline ^d   Grailles, Marine ^d   Mortelecque, Alain ^d  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

^c Service d'Inspection Vétérinaire Alimentaire et Phytosanitaire   (France)

^d Service des Laboratoires Officiels Vétérinaires   (France)

^e Economic Development and Innovation ^*  (France)

^f DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; Eradication; Imidocarb; New Caledonia; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AMITRAZ; IMIDOCARB DIPROPIONATE; IMIDOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGITATION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE FARMING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERADICATION THERAPY; HERD; HYPERSALIVATION; INFECTION CONTROL; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; IMIDOCARB; NEW CALEDONIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TICK CONTROL; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOOPHILUS; BOS; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 79952489034     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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