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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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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa
Ivan G. Horak
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ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa
Heloise Heyne, Roy Williams, Arthur M. Spickett
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Department of Biology, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
G. James Gallivan
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Yzerfontein, South Africa
J. Dürr Bezuidenhout
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Department of Parasitology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Agustín Estrada-Peña
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