Sentence examples for level of tick from inspiring English sources

It was concluded that farmers who have immunised their cattle may cautiously cut down acaricide application by 50% for extensively grazed herds and by 75% for zero grazed animals depending on the level of tick challenge at the herd level.

He said some of the recent decline in Lyme disease in the county might be attributable to public health efforts that included putting signs in county parks warning visitors to check for ticks; distributing fliers about the disease to doctors' and veterinarians' offices, garden centers and schools; and publishing a Lyme-O-Meter in a local newspaper announcing the level of tick danger each week.

What if we could vaccinate the white-footed mice that account for the majority of the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (the cause of Lyme disease) and significantly reduce the level of tick infection?

MEZE have received several reports to its tick recording scheme regarding high levels of tick activity in residential gardens, mostly attributable to the encouragement of wildlife to feed and shelter close to human habitation.38 Often we cannot pick and choose the wildlife we attract.

The high abundance of deer gives high levels of ticks, but the serum incompetence will reduce both the infection in ticks and the risk of Lyme disease transmission.

Tick bites have long been recognized as a means of CCHFV transmission to humans (9 – 12 ), and the novel tick bite registry system provided an opportunity to examine the association between the population-level incidence of tick bites and CCHF.

The high level of infected ticks at Fjelløyvær and Strøm (Table 4) not surprisingly shows that roe deer and red deer probably are competent reservoirs and vehicles for this bacterium.

However, the increase in the IgG2 response had a negative effect on the level of protection against tick infestation (Table 5), evidencing the role of IgG1 antibodies in the mechanism of action of anti-tick vaccines.

PCR results were statistically analyzed by the program @Risk Software Risk Analysis Add-inin for Microsoft Excel Palisade CorporationNewfieldeld, NY, USA), which adopted Monte Carlo techniques to determine the confidence level of the prevalence of ticks infected by Rickettsia in each tick population (farm), considering α = 0.05.

An ordinal tick population index was calculated for each site to give a value to the level of confidence that ticks found at a site came from a reproducing population, rather than being just bird-dispersed adventitious ticks (Ogden et al. 2006b, 2008a).

Over the four years of mouse vaccinations, the researchers found that the level of infection among ticks also went down.