VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS IN LIONS

• This Ixodid tick a native tick of Africa originally, has been distributed throughout the world.
• Mostly parasitic on wild and domestic carnivores and these are popularly known as ' Brown dog tick ' These ticks are incriminated as a vector of Babesiosis, Hepatozoonosis and Ehrlichiosis