Tick parasites of rodents in Romania: Host preferences, community structure and geographical distribution

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mihalca, Andrei D ^a   Dumitrache, Mirabela O ^a   Sándor, Attila D ^a   Magda, Cristian ^a   Oltean, Miruna ^a   Györke, Adriana ^a   Matei, Ioana A ^a   Ionic, Angela ^a   Damico, Gianluca ^a   Cozma, Vasile ^a   Gherman, Clin M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Hard ticks; Ixodidae; Micromammals; Rodents; Romania

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; APODEMUS URALENSIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES APRONOPHORUS; IXODES LAGURI; IXODES REDIKORZEVI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES TRIANGULICEPS; MICROMYS MINUTUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MICROTUS SUBTERRANEUS; MOUSE; MUS SPICILEGUS; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; RAT; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RODENT; ROMANIA; SPERMOPHILUS CITELLUS; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; ROMANIA; TICKS;

APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84869222899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-266     Document Type: Article

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