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Effects of Drought and Media-Reported Violence on Cattle Fever Tick Incursions

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Ectoparasites, such as cattle fever ticks, and the diseases they carry pose a risk to the global cattle population in reduced productivity and in livability.
Jada M. Thompson, Amy H. Delgado, Hallie S. Hasel, Denise L. Bonilla   +3 more
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Controlling ticks and tick-borne diseases…looking forward

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2018
Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) represent a growing burden for human and animal health worldwide. Several approaches including the use of chemicals with repellency and parasiticidal activity, habitat management, genetic selection of hosts with higher resistance to ticks, and vaccines have been implemented for reducing the risk of TBDs.
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Análise da eficácia de acaricidas sobre o carrapato Boophilus microplus, durante a última década, na região sul do Rio Grande do Sul Acaricids efficacy analysis on Boophilus microplus tick, in the last decade in the southern of Rio Grande do Sul

Ciência Rural, 2008
A região sul do Rio Grande do Sul caracteriza-se por uma bovinocultura com predomínio de raças européias, tanto para produção de carne, quanto de leite.
Nara Amélia Farias, Jerônimo Lopes Ruas, Tânia Regina Bettin dos Santos   +2 more
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Stemming the Rising Tide of Human-Biting Ticks and Tickborne Diseases, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Ticks and tickborne diseases are increasingly problematic. There have been positive developments that should result in improved strategies and better tools to suppress ticks, reduce human tick bites, and roll back tickborne diseases.
Lars Eisen
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Willingness and capacity of publicly-funded vector control programs in the USA to engage in tick management

Parasites & Vectors
Background The vast majority of vector-borne diseases in the USA are associated with mosquitoes or ticks. Mosquito control is often conducted as part of community programs run by publicly-funded entities.
James C. Burtis, Erik Foster, Rebecca J. Eisen, Lars Eisen   +3 more
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In vitro anti-tick properties of the essential oil of Tagetes minuta L. (Asteraceae) on Hyalomma rufipes (Acari: Ixodidae)

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2012
In this study we examined the anti-tick properties of the essential oil of Tagetes minuta L. (Asteraceae: Asterales) against Hyalomma rufipes ticks. We obtained the essential oil of T.
Felix Nchu, Solomon R. Magano, Jacobus N. Eloff   +2 more
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The Outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Al-Hsseiniya District /Karbala province in Iraq: A control strategy [PDF]

Basrah Journal of Veterinary Research
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been reported sporadically in Iraq during the last four decades, until 2022, when an aggressive outbreak hits several provinces.
Basim Al-Adhadh
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Evaluation of tick control tube month of placement and modifications to increase visitation by small mammals

Ecosphere, 2022
Tick control tubes are a host‐targeted tick control method targeting immature Ixodes scapularis ticks attached to mice or found within mouse burrows and nests.
Kylie D. Green, Hannah S. Tiffin, Jessica E. Brown, Edwin R. Burgess IV, Erika T. Machtinger   +4 more
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Larvicidal potential of Sapindus saponaria to control the cattle tick Boophilus microplus Potencial larvicida de Sapindus saponaria para controle do carrapato bovino Boophilus microplus

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2005
The objective of this study was to evaluate the larvicidal potential of a crude ethanol extract (CEE) of soapberry Sapindus saponaria stem peel on the cattle tick Boophilus microplus.
Fernando de Freitas Fernandes, Edméia de Paula e Souza Freitas, Anna Carolina da Costa, Ionizete Garcia da Silva   +3 more
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Control of tick-borne diseases

International Journal for Parasitology, 1987
Abstract The control of tick-borne protozoan diseases (babesiosis and theileriosis) depends on judicious integration of management, vector control, chemotherapy and immunization. The relative importance of each method will depend on the animal species involved as well as epidemiological and financial considerations.
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