The neglected navigating web of the incomprehensibly emerging and re-emerging Sarcoptes mite

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 253-259

  Alasaad, Samer ^a,b   Rossi, Luca ^d   Heukelbach, Jorg ^e   Pérez, Jesús M ^f   Hamarsheh, Omar ^g   Otiende, Moses ^h   Zhu, Xing Quan ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^g AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^h KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Emerging and re emerging disease; Parasite flow; Parasite navigating web (Parasite NW); Sarcoptes mite; Sarcoptes scabiei; Scabies

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOPTES; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES;

EID: 84877897533     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.04.018     Document Type: Review

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