Sentence examples for reduced tick from inspiring English sources

Therefore, controlling encroaching tree/shrub species had created a conducive grazing area with palatable herbaceous species for the livestock and unequivocally reduced tick population which play a role in reducing cattle milk production through closing off teats.

In this case, the biological significance of warming may lie in reduced tick overwinter mortality.

Thus, ticks were adapted to feed on WTD in this experiment and reduced tick numbers, weight, oviposition, and fertility were obtained in ticks feed on WTD when compared to ticks fed on cattle (Table 1).

One of these genes, subolesin (also called 4D8), was discovered recently in Ixodes scapularis and was shown by both RNAi and immunization with recombinant proteins to protect against tick infestations, resulting in reduced tick survival, feeding and reproduction [ 7- 11].

These authors [ 36- 38] showed that feeding of ticks on animals immunized with recombinant tick serpins caused ticks to obtain smaller blood meals and as consequence reduced tick fecundity and mortality.

Vaccination with Ba86 reduced tick infestations (71% and 40%), weight (8% and 15%), oviposition (22% and 5%) and egg fertility (25% and 50%) for B. annulatus and B. microplus, respectively.

"And we're working on environmentally friendly methods of reducing tick populations".

However, the potential of vaccines for the control of TBDs has been underestimated due to major challenges to reduce tick infestations, pathogen infection, multiplication and transmission, tick attachment and feeding time and/or host pathogen infection.

Certain practices, however, such as early removal of attached ticks from skin, use of repellents, and landscape modifications near human dwellings can reduce tick bites and risk of infection.

There is considerable interest in integrated methods of Lyme disease control that would bring together the vaccine pellet with other approaches, including selected pesticides to reduce tick density.

The development of strains that are highly pathogenic to ticks and specific to ticks would be a very important development in the production of products homeowners could use to safely and effectively reduce tick populations".