Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing endemic and exotic wild mammals in the Esteros del Iberá wetlands, Argentina

Systematic and Applied Acarology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-250

  Debárbora, Valeria N ^a   Nava, Santiago ^b   Cirignoli, Sebastián ^c   Guglielmone, Alberto A ^b   Poi, Alicia S G ^a  

^a Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Littoral   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA   (Argentina)

^c The Conservation Land Trust Argentina   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Esteros del Iber ; Ixodidae; Ticks; Wild mammals

Indexed keywords

ACARI; AKODON AZARAE; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA DUBITATUM; AMBLYOMMA NODOSUM; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ANIMALIA; BLASTOCEROS DICHOTOMUS; BOOPHILUS; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; CAVIA; CAVIA APEREA; CERVUS AXIS; DIDELPHIDAE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS JUXTAKOCHI; HYDROCHAERIS HYDROCHAERIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MAMMALIA; MAZAMA GOUAZOUPIRA; MONODELPHIS DIMIDIATA; MYRMECOPHAGA TRIDACTYLA; OLIGORYZOMYS FLAVESCENS; ORYZOMYS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RODENTIA; SCAPTEROMYS AQUATICUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84866182231     PISSN: 13621971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11158/saa.17.3.3     Document Type: Article

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