Equine piroplasmosis associated with Amblyomma cajennense ticks, Texas, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1903-1905

  Scoles, Glen A ^a   Hutcheson, H Joel ^b   Schlater, Jack L ^b   Hennager, Steven G ^b   Pelzel, Angela M ^b   Knowles, Donald P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR NITENS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EPIDEMIC; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 84930477032     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1710.101182     Document Type: Article

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