Natural Transmission of Heart-water of Sheep by Amblyomma variegatum (Fabricius 1794)
- 1 March 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Parasitology
- Vol. 22 (2), 260-267
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000011100
Abstract
The disease “Heart-water” of sheep, cattle and goats has been recognised in South Africa for upwards of 70 years, and as long ago as 1902 Lounsbury demonstrated the part played by the common bont-tick, Amblyomma hebraeum Koch 1844, in its transmission. The virus of the disease does not pass through the egg of the tick, but a tick infected in the larval or the nymphal stages is capable of transmitting the infection when feeding as a nymph or adult respectively. Further, according to Lounsbury, a tick infected as a larva may feed upon an insusceptible host during the nymphal stage, and still remain infective until the final feed as an adult.Keywords
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