Parasitisation and localisation of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) on exotic reptiles imported into Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-242

  Nowak, Magdalena ^a  

^a PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Ixodida; Localisation of ticks on host; Python regius; Reptilia; Varanus exanthematicus; Varanus salvator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITOSIS; PHYTON REGIUS; POLAND; REPTILE; TICK; VARANUS EXANTHEMATICUS; VARANUS SALVATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; TICK INFESTATION;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; ANIMALIA; IXODIDA; PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; VARANUS; VARANUS EXANTHEMATICUS; VARANUS SALVATOR;

ANIMALS; IXODIDAE; REPTILES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 79955011736     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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