Fencing and mowing as effective methods for reducing tick abundance on very small, infested plots

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 167-172

  Del Fabbro, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fencing; Ixodes ricinus; Mowing; Prevention; Small surfaces; Tick control

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FENCING; FOREST; IXODES RICINUS; MOWING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE CONTROL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RECREATION; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK REDUCTION; TICK INFESTATION; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FORESTS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84922204320     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.11.009     Document Type: Article

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