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for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety
Volume 1, Issue 2,
June 2015, Pages 5–11
ISSN 2411-3174 (print version) ISSN 2411-0388 (online version)
SOfT TICK SAmPLING AND COLLECTION
Pérez de
León A., Showler A.
United States
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Knipling-Bushland
U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory,
Stegniy B. T.,
Kucheryavenko R. O., Kucheryavenko V. V., Gerilovych A. P., Filatov S. V.
National
Scientific Center ‘Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary
Medicine’,
Li A.
United States
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Invasive Insect Biocontrol
and Behavior Laboratory,
Teel P.
McVey S.
United States
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Arthropod-Borne Animal
Diseases Research Unit,
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V., Li A., Teel P. and McVey S. (2015)
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Summary. Soft, or argasid, ticks are challenging to sample for or to
collect because of their mostly cryptic behaviors that involve crevices, animal
burrows, animal nest materials, and digging into soil. Soft ticks generally do
not stay attached to their hosts for more than 30 min,
hence, examination of living and dead host animals should not be expected to
detect specimens in numbers that represent substantial proportions of the total
soft tick population in a given area. Sampling provides foundational information
that is important for efforts to develop soft tick surveillance programs.
Methods applied commonly to sample soft ticks include: manual examination of
habitat substrate material, aspiration of host nests or burrows, trapping using
CO2 or possibly other attractants such as pheromones and their
analogs. Because African swine fever, caused by a virus, which is highly
contagious and afflicts pigs and their close relatives, has been spreading from
its usual range in Africa into the Ukraine, we discuss features of the disease
and its soft tick (Ornithodoros spp.)
vectors in order to indicate a contemporary situation involving the need for
systematic argasid tick monitoring through sampling.
Keywords: argasid, attractants, collecting,
soft tick, surveillance, sampling, African swine fever, trapping, pheromones, Ornithodoros
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