Ixodid ticks on ruminants, with on-host initiated moulting (apolysis) of Ixodes, Haemaphysalis and Dermacentor larvae

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 350-353

  Hornok, S ^a   Horvath G ^b   Jongejan, F ^c   Farkas, R ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Small Animal Clinic   (Hungary)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goat; Haemaphysalis; Ixodes; Moulting; Roe deer; Tick larvae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; GOAT; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HUNGARY; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; LARVA; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RED DEER; ROE DEER; SHEEP; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; DEER; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IXODIDAE; MOLTING; NYMPH; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; APOLYSIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CAPREOLUS; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84860666441     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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