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Vaccine puts blood-sucking ticks off their food.(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ticks spread a greater variety of diseases than any other blood-feeding creature, including mosquitoes. Now scientists are developing vaccines that prevent ticks from digesting the blood of their animal or human victim, according to research presented at the spring meeting of the Society for General Microbiology at the University of Warwick, England.
"A new solution to controlling tick-borne diseases is to develop vaccines against the ticks and not the microbes that cause the diseases. We have experimental vaccines containing molecules found on the tick's gut wall which prevent the digestion of the blood meal and stop females from laying their eggs," said Dr. Olivier Sparagano of Newcastle University.
"These prototype vaccines can greatly reduce the fertility of female ticks and the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Vaccine puts blood-sucking ticks off their food.(Brief Article)