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Vaccination of cattle with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted extracellular domains of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus aquaporin 2 reduced the number of ticks feeding to repletion

BACKGROUND: There have been ongoing efforts to identify anti-tick vaccine targets to protect cattle from infestation with cattle fever ticks Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Two commercial vaccines based on the tick gut protein Bm86 have had variable effectiveness, which has led to poor acceptan...

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Autores principales: Scoles, Glen A., Hussein, Hala E., Olds, Cassandra L., Mason, Kathleen L., Davis, Sara K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8822678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35135602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05166-1