Ornithodorus moubata in wart-hog and porcupine burrows in Tanganyika territory

1 September 1953

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Vol. 47 (5) , 410-411
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(53)80023-4

Abstract

Ornithodorus moubata. the vector of relapsing fever, is a consistent inhabitant of the burrows of the wart-hog and the porcupine , and occasionally of domestic pig-sties, as well as of native huts, and human infestation can be acquired in the field as well as around the home.

Keywords

ANIMALS
TICKS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

On the Occurrence ofOrnithodoros MoubataMurray in Burrows
Pathogens and Global Health, 1950
On the Association of Warthog and the Nkufu Tick (Ornithodorus Moubata)
Pathogens and Global Health, 1915