As long-term pool feeders, ticks have developed myriad strategies to remain discreetly but
solidly attached to their hosts for the duration of their blood meal. The critical biological …

There is now abundant evidence that vaccination with defined protein antigens is able to
induce significant immunity to tick infestation. In a limited number of cases, this immunity has …

Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage
caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious …

Tick vaccines derived from Bm86, a midgut membrane‐bound protein of the cattle tick,
Boophilus microplus, are currently the only commercially available ectoparasite vaccines …

As blood-sucking parasites, ticks inflict great damage to animals and humans in many parts
of the world. The continued use of chemical acaricides is not sustainable due to increasing …

The saliva of ticks (Suborder Ixodida) is critical to their survival as parasites. A tick bite
should result in strong responses from the host defence systems (haemostatic, immune and …

The tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is a blood-sucking ectoparasite of cattle that
severely impairs livestock production. Studies on tick immunological control address mostly …

Although parasites range from protozoan to complex, evolutionary advanced arthropods, in
general, a hallmark of parasite life cycles is their ability to adapt to changes in temperature …

Ticks have serious impacts on animal and human health, causing significant economic
losses in cattle breeding. Besides damage due to the hematophagous behavior, they …

Understanding host-pathogen-tick interactions remains a vitally important issue that might
be better understood by basic research focused on each of the dyad interplays. Pathogens …