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| Grech-angelini, Sebastien; Stachurski, Frederic; Lancelot, Renaud; Boissier, Jerome; Allienne, Jean-francois; Marco, Sylvain; Maestrini, Oscar; Uilenberg, Gerrit. |
| Background: Corsica is a mountainous French island in the north-western Mediterranean presenting a large diversity of natural environments where many interactions between domestic animals and wild fauna occur. Despite a favourable context for ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs), the tick fauna of Corsica has not systematically been investigated. Methods: For one year (May 2014-May 2015), a survey of ticks infesting cattle was performed in the three Corsican cattle slaughterhouses. Two of these were visited monthly and one quarterly; the ticks were manually collected, just after flaying. Ticks were identified on their morphology; when necessary, some specimens were also molecularly identified by sequencing mitochondrial cox1 (cytochrome c oxidase subunit... |
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Palavras-chave: Ticks (Ixodidae); Cattle; Domestic animals; Wild animals; Molecular identification; Corsica. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00361/47191/71863.pdf |
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