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Cattle Tick Rhipicephalus microplus-Host Interface: A Review of Resistant and Susceptible Host Responses.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2017
Tabor Ala E, Ali Abid, Rehman Gauhar, Rocha Garcia Gustavo, Zangirolamo Amanda Fonseca, Malardo Thiago, Jonsson Nicholas N
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Ticks are able to transmit tick-borne infectious agents to vertebrate hosts which cause major constraints to public and livestock health. The costs associated with mortality, relapse, treatments, and decreased production yields are economically significant. Ticks adapted to a hematophagous existence after the vertebrate hemostatic system evolved into a multi-layered defense system against foreign invasion...
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