Do ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. constitute a burden to birds?
Ticks consume resources from their hosts shaping their life-history traits and are vectors of many zoonotic pathogens. Several studies have focused on the health effects of blood sucking ectoparasites on avian hosts, but there is limited information on the effects of ticks on adult and sub-adult bir...
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Formato: | article |
Idioma: | eng |
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2013
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Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/1672 |
País: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/1672 |