Tick-borne bacteria in mouflons and their ectoparasites in Cyprus

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 300-306

  Ioannou, Ioannis ^a   Sandalakis, Vassilios ^b   Kassinis, Nikos ^c   Chochlakis, Dimosthenis ^b   Papadopoulos, Byron ^b   Loukaides, Fedias ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^b   Psaroulaki, Anna ^b  

^a VETERINARY SERVICES   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Coxiella burnetii; Cyprus; Mouflon; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA OVIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES; IXODIDA; OPHION; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 79953645006     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.2.300     Document Type: Article

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