Ticks of domestic animals
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 117 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5092-3311-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ticks of domestic animals directly cause poor health and loss of production to their hosts by many parasitic mechanisms. Ticks also transmit numerous kinds of viruses, bacteria and protozoa between domestic animals. These microbes cause diseases which can be severely debilitating or fatal to domestic animals, and may also affect humans. Ticks are especially important to domestic animals in tropical and subtropical countries. Here the warm climate enables many species of ticks to flourish. Also the numerous wild animals in warm countries provides a reservoir of ticks and infective microbes that spread to domestic animals. Farmers of livestock animals use many methods to control ticks and there are related treatments to reduce infestation of companion animals. Veterinarians and animal health agencies work at private, national and international scales to reduce the harm caused by ticks and their associated diseases. Данное издание представляет...