Fig. 1

Survival of Rhipicephalus microplus females after artificial blood-feeding with or without tetracycline and Metarhizium anisopliae treatment (average and standard error). Asterisk indicates a statistical difference between ctrl and T+F (P < 0.05) by long-rank test. Treatments: ctrl—fungus-untreated ticks previously fed with pure blood (control group); T—fungus-untreated ticks previously fed with blood plus tetracycline; F—fungus-treated ticks previously fed with pure blood; T+F—fungus-treated ticks previously fed with blood plus tetracycline