Ixodid ticks of road-killed wildlife species in southern Italy: New tick-host associations and locality records

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-300

  Lorusso, Vincenzo ^a,b   Lia, Riccardo Paolo ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a   Mallia, Egidio ^c   Ravagnan, Silvia ^d   Capelli, Gioia ^d   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Parco Regionale Gallipoli Cognato Piccole Dolomiti Lucane   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodidae; Lyme Borreliosis; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORTALITY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROADKILL; TAXONOMY; TICK; TYPE LOCALITY; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; TERRITORY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; TICK; WILD ANIMAL;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; ITALY; IXODIDAE; MALE; RICKETTSIA;

ITALY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES; IXODES ACUMINATUS; IXODES CANISUGA; IXODES HEXAGONUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; LEPUS CORSICANUS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 80355136685     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-011-9470-4     Document Type: Article

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