Rahman M H
Folia Parasitol (Praha). 1984;31(1):63-7.
Studies of the effects of host-immunity on the life cycle of Hyalomma rufipes were carried out by allowing the ticks to feed on New Zealand white rabbits under laboratory conditions. The immunity of the rabbit host significantly affected the life cycle of this tick, reducing the percentage recovery of engorged females, their engorged weights and the total number of eggs laid by these females. The viability of the eggs laid by them was also considerably reduced compared to the eggs laid by females fed on naive rabbit hosts. The effects of host immunity were also revealed in the tendency towards three-host development of this species, which otherwise behaved as a two-host tick when fed on non-immune rabbit hosts.
通过在实验室条件下让蜱吸食新西兰白兔，开展了关于宿主免疫对红扇璃眼蜱生命周期影响的研究。兔宿主的免疫显著影响了这种蜱的生命周期，降低了饱血雌蜱的回收率、它们的饱血重量以及这些雌蜱所产卵的总数。与吸食未免疫兔宿主的雌蜱所产卵相比，它们所产卵的活力也大幅降低。宿主免疫的影响还体现在该物种向三宿主发育的趋势上，否则当吸食非免疫兔宿主时，它表现为二宿主蜱。
