A study of ticks and tick-borne livestock pathogens in Pakistan.

• Main Authors: Shahid Karim (Author), Khemraj Budachetri (Author), Nabanita Mukherjee (Author), Jaclyn Williams (Author), Asma Kausar (Author), Muhammad Jawadul Hassan (Author), Steven Adamson (Author), Scot E Dowd (Author), Dmitry Apanskevich (Author), Abdullah Arijo (Author), Zia Uddin Sindhu (Author), Muhammad Azam Kakar (Author), Raja Muhammad Dilpazir Khan (Author), Shafiq Ullah (Author), Muhammad Sohail Sajid (Author), Abid Ali (Author), Zafar Iqbal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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As obligate blood-feeding arthropods, ticks transmit pathogens to humans and domestic animals more often than other arthropod vectors. Livestock farming plays a vital role in the rural economy of Pakistan, and tick infestation causes serious problems with it. However, research on tick species divers...