Eradication and control of livestock ticks: Biological, economic and social perspectives

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 945-959

  Walker, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biology; control; economics; eradication; land use; livestock; sociology; tick

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; CATTLE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEILERIA PARVA; TICK; TICK ERADICATION AND COTROL;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; LIVESTOCK; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

ANIMALIA; IXODIDA;

EID: 80053113745     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000709     Document Type: Review

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