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Parasitology. 2012 Apr;139(4):419-23. doi: 10.1017/S0031182011002228. Epub 2012 Jan 5.
Although widely used, the term repellency needs to be employed with care when applied to ticks and other periodic or permanent ectoparasites. Repellency has classically been used to describe the effects of a substance that causes a flying arthropod to make oriented movements away from its source. However, for crawling arthropods such as ticks, the term commonly subsumes a range of effects that include arthropod irritation and consequent avoiding or leaving the host, failing to attach, to bite, or to feed. The objective of the present article is to highlight the need for clarity, to propose consensus descriptions and methods for the evaluation of various effects on ticks caused by chemical substances.
尽管被广泛使用，但在应用于蜱虫和其他周期性或永久性外寄生虫时，需要小心使用“驱避性”一词。驱避性通常被用来描述一种物质的效果，这种物质会导致飞行节肢动物做出有方向的远离其来源的运动。然而，对于蜱虫等爬行节肢动物来说，这个术语通常包含一系列的效果，包括节肢动物的刺激以及随后的回避或离开宿主、无法附着、叮咬或进食。本文的目的是强调需要明确性，并为评估化学物质对蜱虫造成的各种影响提出共识描述和方法。
