Bird ticks in an area of the Cerrado of Minas Gerais State, southeast Brazil

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-99

  Luz, Hermes Ribeiro ^a   Faccini, João Luiz Horacio ^a   Landulfo, Gabriel Alves ^a   Berto, Bruno Pereira ^a   Ferreira, Ildemar ^a  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma spp.; Birds; Brazil; Nymph; Survey; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CERRADO; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASSERINE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA LONGIROSTRE; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AVES; IXODIDA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84864283459     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9572-7     Document Type: Article

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