Nilgai antelope in Northern Mexico as a possible carrier for cattle fever ticks and babesia bovis and babesia bigemina

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 777-779

  Cárdenas Canales, Elsa M ^a   Ortega Santos, J Alfonso ^a   Campbell, Tyler A ^b   García Vázquez, Zeferino ^c   Cantu ́ Covarrubias, Antonio ^c   Figueroa Milla ́n, Julio V ^c   Deyoung, Randall W ^a   Hewitt, David G ^a   Bryant, Fred C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOS; BOSELAPHUS TRAGOCAMELUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79960216493     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-47.3.777     Document Type: Letter

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