Studies on the reactions of animals to infestation with ticks. V. Laboratory animals as hosts for the cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Canestrini)

Abstract

When an Elizabethan collar was fitted to prevent the animal from biting and scratching, successful development of the cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, was obtained on the white mouse and rabbit, but not on the guinea-pig. Development on mice was little slower than on cattle, but mortality was high, and replete females were less than half the normal weight. There was an inconstant, round-cell reaction to attachment of larvae, but a more acute, polymorphonuclear response to nymphs and adults, and a tendency to wall of I the haustellum of the tick by ingrowing epithelium or inflammatory tissue.