Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XIX. Ixodid ticks and fleas on rock dassies (Procavia capensis) in the Mountain Zebra National Park

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dc.contributor.author Fourie, L.J.
dc.contributor.editor Bigalke, R.D.
dc.contributor.upauthor Horak, Ivan Gerard
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dc.date.created 2014
dc.date.issued 1986
dc.description The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Five or 6 rock dassies (Procavia capensis) were shot at monthly intervals for 13 consecutive months in the Mountain Zebra National Park and processed for arthropod parasite recovery. Ten species of ixodid ticks and 2 flea species were recovered. The seasonal prevalence of the rock dassie ticks, Haemaphysalis hyracophila and Rhipicephalus distinctus, and of the immature stages of Rhipicephalus arnoldi, a tick that usually infests the red rock rabbit (Pronolagus rupestris), was determined. Only 10 of the approximately 10 000 ticks recovered from the rock dassies belonged to species that may infest domestic livestock. en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship National Parks Board. Meat Board. Rhodes University. CSIR. en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Horak, IG & Fourie, LJ 1986, 'Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XIX. Ixodid ticks and fleas on rock dassies ( Procavia capensis) in the Mountain Zebra National Park’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 123-126. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0330-2465
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44161
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria. en_ZA
dc.rights ©ARC - Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). ©University of Pretoria. Dept. of Library Services (digital). en_ZA
dc.subject Veterinary medicine en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh Veterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.title Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XIX. Ixodid ticks and fleas on rock dassies (Procavia capensis) in the Mountain Zebra National Park en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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