Tick infestation of Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia
| 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 |