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Coumaphos is a nonvolatile, fat-soluble phosphorothioate with ectoparasiticide properties: it kills insects and mites.It is well known by a variety of brand names as a dip or wash, used on farm and domestic animals to control ticks, mites, flies and fleas.
Angus weaners, approximately 6-9 months old, just taken off their mothers in Northern NSW Clarence Valley. Cattle drenching is the process of administering chemical solutions (anthelmintics) to cattle or Bos taurus with the purpose of protecting livestock from various parasites including worms, fluke, cattle ticks, lice and flies. [1]
Tropical theileriosis or Mediterranean theileriosis is a theileriosis of cattle from the Mediterranean and Middle East area, from Morocco to Western parts of India and China. It is a tick-borne disease, caused by Theileria annulata. The vectors are ticks of the genera Hyalomma and Rhipicephalus. The most prominent symptoms are fever and lymph ...
Infestations of cattle with mites of the similar genus Chorioptes, in combination with Sarcoptes mite infestation, has been shown to cause a failure to gain body weight by 15.5 to 37.2 kilograms (34 + 1 ⁄ 8 to 82 lb) over a two-month period compared to cattle without the mites.
These ticks, commonly known as cattle ticks or blue ticks, have a highly characteristic morphology and one-host lifecycle. They have high specificity for cattle as hosts and their morphological characteristics used for identification are less distinct than those of three-host rhipicephalids such as R. appendiculatus .
Sweating sickness is "an acute, febrile, tickborne toxicosis characterized mainly by a profuse, moist eczema and hyperemia of the skin and visible mucous membranes." [1] It affects cattle, mainly calves, [2] mostly in southern and eastern Africa.
A more acute form of East Coast fever called corridor disease occurs when buffalo-derived T. parva is transmitted to cattle. [3] Another form, called January disease, only occurs over the winter months in Zimbabwe due to the tick lifecycle. [citation needed] Native cattle are often resistant to the parasite, but not without symptoms. They are ...
Researchers investigating new reports of Epizootic Bovine Abortion (a disease of cattle vectored by this tick) in areas where it was not previously known to occur in the United States found some geographic-genetic structure in populations of O. coriaceus: A northern and southern clade were approximately separated by the northern boundary of the ...