CO 2 flagging - An improved method for the collection of questing ticks

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gherman, Clin M ^a   Mihalca, Andrei D ^a   Dumitrache, Mirabela O ^a   Györke, Adriana ^a   Oroian, Ioan ^a   Sandor, Mignon ^a   Cozma, Vasile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Flagging; Ixodes ricinus; Questing ticks

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FLAGGING; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PROCEDURES; ROMANIA; SAMPLING; SPRING; TICK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; IXODES; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY;

DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; IXODES; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; ROMANIA;

EID: 84862492445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-125     Document Type: Article

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