Tick infestation of Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia

Regassa, A.

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dc.contributor.author	Regassa, A.
dc.contributor.editor	Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-20T12:13:19Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-20T12:13:19Z
dc.date.created	2012
dc.date.issued	2001
dc.description	The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.	en
dc.description.abstract	A study was conducted to identify and determine burdens of ticks infesting Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia. Rhipicephalus pulchellus, Rhipicephalus pravus, Rhipicephalus muhsamae, Rhipicephalus praetextatus, Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi, Amblyomma gemma, Amblyomma variegatum, Amblyomma cohaerens, Amblyomma lepidum, Hyalomma truncatum, Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and Boophilus decoloratus were identified on the cattle. Their burdens ranged from 658-1554 with a mean of 1205 ticks per animal. Out of the total 6025 ticks collected, about 82% were R. pulchellus, followed by R. pravus (about 8%) and A. gemma (5%). The other nine species of ticks accounted for only 5% of the total burdens. It is suggested that a strategic tick control method, aimed mainly at reducing the R. pulchellus burdens, with the objective of allowing a reasonable number of ticks to remain on cattle for the maintenance of endemic stability to tick-borne diseases be instituted.	en
dc.description.librarian	mn2012	en
dc.identifier.citation	Regassa, A 2001, 'Tick infestation of Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 41-45.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0030-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18481
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria.	en
dc.rights	© ARC-Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).	en
dc.subject	Veterinary medicine	en
dc.subject	Borana cattle	en
dc.subject	Borana Province	en
dc.subject	Burdens	en
dc.subject	Ethiopia	en
dc.subject	Infestation	en
dc.subject	Tick	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Veterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Ticks as carriers of disease	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Tick-borne diseases in animals -- South Africa	en
dc.title	Tick infestation of Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia	en
dc.type	Article	en