Defining the concept of 'tick repellency' in veterinary medicine

L. Halos; G. Baneth; F. Beugnet; A. S. Bowman; B. Chomel; R. Farkas; M. Franc; J. Guillot; H. Inokuma; R. Kaufman; F. Jongejan; A. Joachim; D. Otranto; K. Pfister; M. Pollmeier; A. Sainz; R. Wall

doi:10.1017/S0031182011002228

Defining the concept of 'tick repellency' in veterinary medicine

L. Halos^*, G. Baneth, F. Beugnet, A. S. Bowman, B. Chomel, R. Farkas, M. Franc, J. Guillot, H. Inokuma, R. Kaufman, F. Jongejan, A. Joachim, D. Otranto, K. Pfister, M. Pollmeier, A. Sainz, R. Wall

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The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine

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Abstract

Although widely used, the term repellency needs to be employed with care when applied to ticks and other periodic or permanent ectoparasites. Repellency has classically been used to describe the effects of a substance that causes a flying arthropod to make oriented movements away from its source. However, for crawling arthropods such as ticks, the term commonly subsumes a range of effects that include arthropod irritation and consequent avoiding or leaving the host, failing to attach, to bite, or to feed. The objective of the present article is to highlight the need for clarity, to propose consensus descriptions and methods for the evaluation of various effects on ticks caused by chemical substances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	419-423
Number of pages	5
Journal	Parasitology
Volume	139
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182011002228
State	Published - Apr 2012

Keywords

acaricides
companion animals
control
disruption of attachment
expellency
repellency
study design
tick

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