Vectors and vector-borne diseases of horses

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-81

  Onmaz, A C ^a   Beutel, R G ^b   Schneeberg, K ^b   Pavaloiu, A N ^c   Komarek, A ^d   Van Den Hoven, R ^e  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Horses; Insects; Vector; Vector borne diseases

Indexed keywords

AEDES DORSALIS; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; ANOPHELES BIFURCATUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHRYSOPS CAECUTIENS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICOIDES; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DIPTERA; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; EQUINE GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; GASTEROPHILUS INTESTINALIS; GLOSSINA; HABRONEMIASIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS; HAEMATOPOTA GRANDIS; HIPPOBOSCA EQUINA; HORSE DISEASE; HOUSE FLY; HUMAN; HYALOMMA; HYDROTAEA DENTIPES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; KUNJIN VIRUS; LYME DISEASE; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS; MUSCIDAE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARAFILARIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROSS RIVER FEVER; SIMULIUM LATIMANUS; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS; TABANUS; THELAZIASIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TULAREMIA; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FEVER; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS;

ACARI; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DIPTERA; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES;

EID: 84873419232     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: 15737446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11259-012-9537-7     Document Type: Review

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