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Heartwater : Past, Present and Future. Workshop (1986 : Kruger National Park, South Africa)
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MacIvor, K.M. de F.
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Petney, T.N.
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De Vos, Valerius
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Bigalke, R.D. |
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Horak, Ivan Gerard
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2014-11-20T10:14:33Z |
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2014-11-20T10:14:33Z |
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2014 |
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1987 |
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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. |
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Large numbers of birds, wild mammals and domestic stock from a variety of localities within the Republic of South Africa were examined for infestation with the ixodid ticks Amblyomma hebraeum and Amblyomma marmoreum. Every warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), Burchell's zebra (Equus burchelli), impala (Aepyceros melampus) and kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) from the Kruger National Park in the north-eastern Transvaal Lowveld was infested with A. hebraeum. In the eastern Cape Province every helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; all but 1 of the 22 domestic cattle examined on the farm "Bucklands"; and all Angora goats plus nearly all Boer goats examined on the farm "Brakhill" were infested with this tick. Most animals examined appeared to be good hosts of the immature stages, and the larger the host species the greater the chances of it harbouring large numbers of adult ticks. The largest animals examined, such as eland, buffalo, giraffe and rhinoceros, harboured very large numbers of adult A. hebraeum. No adult A. marmoreum was recovered from any host. However, 50% or more of helmeted guinea fowl and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; helmeted guinea fowl, scrub hares and eland (Taurotragus oryx) from the Mountain Zebra National Park; helmeted guinea fowl, kudu, domestic sheep, goats and cattle on the farm "Bucklands", and caracal (Felis caracal) from the Cradock and Southwell areas of the eastern Cape Province were infested with immature A. marmoreum. In the Bontebok National Park in the south-western Cape Province more than 35 % of scrub hares, vaal ribbok (Pelea capreolus) and bontebok (Damaliscus dorcas dorcas) were infested with immature ticks. |
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Horak, IG, MacIvor, KMdF, Petney, TN & De Vos, V 1987, 'Some avian and mammalian hosts of Amblyomma hebraeum and Amblyomma marmoreum (Acari: Ixodidae)’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 397-403. |
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0330-2465 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42681 |
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Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria. |
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©ARC - Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). ©University of Pretoria. Dept. of Library Services (digital). |
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Veterinary medicine |
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Veterinary medicine -- South Africa |
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Heartwater -- South Africa |
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dc.title |
Some avian and mammalian hosts of Amblyomma hebraeum and Amblyomma marmoreum (Acari : Ixodidae) |
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Heartwater : past, present and future : proceedings of a workshop held at Berg en Dal, Kruger National Park, on 8-16 September 1986 |
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Article |
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