An economic evaluation of cattle tick acaricide-resistances and the financial losses in subtropical dairy farms of Ecuador: A farm system approach.

Estimates of economic losses in cattle due to tick infestations in subtropical areas are limited, such as in Ecuador. Ticks affect animal production and health, but those direct effects are difficult to estimate since financial exercises carried out in farms consider both costs of the inputs and rev...

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Main Authors: Valeria Paucar-Quishpe, Ximena Pérez-Otáñez, Richar Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Darío Cepeda-Bastidas, Cecilia Pérez-Escalante, Jorge Grijalva-Olmedo, Sandra Enríquez, Susana Arciniegas-Ortega, Luis Sandoval-Trávez, Bryan Benavides-Erazo, Sophie O Vanwambeke, Claude Saegerman, Lenin Ron-Garrido
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287104&type=printable