Analysis of the risk factors relating to cows' resistance to Rhipicephalus microplus ticks during the peripartum

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 551-557

  da Silva, Jenevaldo Barbosa ^a   Rangel, Charles Passos ^b   de Azevedo Baêta, Bruna ^b   da Fonseca, Adivaldo Henrique ^b  

^a Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Lactation; Peripartum; Pregnancy; Ticks

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; LACTATION; PEST RESISTANCE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; TICK; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALIA; BOOPHILUS; BOS; BOS TAURUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMAL; BOVINE; BRAZIL; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LACTATION; MILK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARASITOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SECRETION (PROCESS); TICK INFESTATION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84902550101     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-014-9793-z     Document Type: Article

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