Integrated strategy for sustainable cattle fever tick eradication in USA is required to mitigate the impact of global change

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUN, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pérez de Leon, Adalberto A ^a   Teel, Pete D ^b   Auclair, Allan N ^c   Messenger, Matthew T ^c   Guerrero, Felix D ^a   Schuster, Greta ^d   Miller, Robert J ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesiosis; Cattle; Climate; Global change; Integrated eradication; Modeling; Sustainability; Tick

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866365422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00195     Document Type: Article

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