Ticks (Ixodida) on humans from central Panama, Panama (2010-2011)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-88

  Bermúdez C , Sergio E ^a   Castro, Angélica ^a   Esser, Helen ^b   Liefting, Yorick ^b   García, Gleydis ^a   Miranda, Roberto J ^a  

^a Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Environments; Human; Panama; Ticks

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIMEN BANK; TICK; URBAN AREA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA DISSIMILE; AMBLYOMMA NAPONENSE; AMBLYOMMA OBLONGOGUTTATUM; AMBLYOMMA OVALE; AMBLYOMMA TAPIRELLUM; HAEMAPHYSALIS JUXTAKOCHI; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 84864288678     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9564-7     Document Type: Article

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