Ixodid Ticks Feeding on Humans in South Africa: with Notes on Preferred Hosts, Geographic Distribution, Seasonal Occurrence and Transmission of Pathogens
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Experimental and Applied Acarology
- Vol. 27 (1/2) , 113-136
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021587001198
Abstract
This paper records the identities of 558 ixodid ticks feeding on 194 humans in South Africa. These ticks belonged to 20 species in six genera and those most frequently encountered were Amblyomma...Keywords
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