Amblyomma cajennense is an intrastadial biological vector of Theileria equi

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Transstadial transmission, Experiment 1, D. variabilis adults held 100 days after molting from nymphs fed on T. equi infected horses shown in Table 1

Transmission fed for seven days on two different transmission horses. Numbers of ticks applied, recovered and dissected from each horse after transmission feeding. There was no transmission.
^aNumber recovered/number applied.
^bNumber positive over the number tested.
^cThe first 18 ticks dissected at the same time as the others, the remaining 14 dissected ≈ 3 weeks later.

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