Overview
Comprehensive work on the ticks of Southern Africa, their morphology, distributions, hosts and life cycles
Comprehensive tick/host tables and host/tick tables populated with numbers of hosts infested and most tables with total numbers of ticks collected
Tick-borne diseases and tick-transmitted toxins that affect animals and humans are mentioned in the text and their modes of transmission summarized in tabular format with accompanying references
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About the authors
Ivan G. Horak is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
Heloise Heyne is a Senior Technician and the Curator of the Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum, in the section Epidemiology, Parasites & Vectors, Agricultural Research Council–Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
G. James Gallivan Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Formerly Department of Biology, University of Swaziland, P/B Kwaluseni, Swaziland.
Roy Williams is a Senior Researcher in the section Epidemiology, Agricultural Research Council–Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
Arthur M. Spickett is a retired Senior Researcher in the section Epidemiology, Parasites & Vectors at the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
J. Dürr Bezuidenhout is a retired Veterinary Researcher and Deputy Director of the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa.
Agustín Estrada-Peña is a Professor in the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa
Authors: Ivan G. Horak, Heloise Heyne, Roy Williams, G. James Gallivan, Arthur M. Spickett, J. Dürr Bezuidenhout, Agustín Estrada-Peña
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70642-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70640-5Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09977-0Published: 14 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70642-9Published: 14 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 676
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Parasitology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts