The host status of the striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in relation to the tick vectors of heartwater in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorHowell, D.J.
dc.contributor.authorPetney, T.N.
dc.contributor.editorVerwoerd, Daniel Wynand
dc.contributor.upauthorHorak, Ivan Gerard
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-06T06:06:57Z
dc.date.available2014-10-06T06:06:57Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued1989
dc.descriptionThe 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
dc.description.abstractStriped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio, were trapped over a 17 month period in the Thomas Baines Nature Reserve in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Captured mice were placed in cages, over water, and naturally detaching ticks were collected. Only 5 larvae and 1 nymph of Amblyomma hebraeum were recovered from the mice. These represented less than 0,1 % of the total number of ticks recovered. No Amblyomma marmoreum were recovered. As the vegetation and large mammals and tortoises in the Thomas Baines Nature Reserve abound in larvae of both these vectors of heartwater the low infestation rates of R. pumilio indicate that it is either unsuitable or inaccessible for these ticks. R. pumilio is therefore unlikely to play a role in the epidemiology of heartwater.en
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dc.identifier.citationHowell, DJ, Petney, TN & Horak, IG 1989, 'The host status of the striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in relation to the tick vectors of heartwater in South Africa', Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 289-291.en
dc.identifier.issn0330-2465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/42238
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublished by the Government Printer, 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.subjectVeterinary medicineen
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.titleThe host status of the striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio, in relation to the tick vectors of heartwater in South Africaen
dc.typeArticleen

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