Spickett A M
Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa.
Int J Parasitol. 1994 Sep;24(6):845-9. doi: 10.1016/0020-7519(94)90010-8.
The availability and expediency of acaricides for the control of ticks, together with the development of vaccination procedures against tick-borne diseases as a matter of priority, initially preceded information gained from research on tick ecology. The establishment of acaricide resistance, the increasing cost of chemical control and the data on production loss as an integral part of tick infestation are factors which led to the incorporation of ecological principles into tick control. Continuing research on the life processes of ticks as well as on their interaction with hosts and the environment, initiated producer manipulation of acaricide application frequencies, habitat manipulation techniques and the use of host immunity which are important for the establishment of economically suitable strategies of tick control. The role of tick ecology in establishing these concepts and its influence on current tick research is examined.
用于控制蜱虫的杀螨剂的可得性和便利性，以及将针对蜱传疾病的疫苗接种程序的开发作为优先事项，最初先于从蜱虫生态学研究中获得的信息。杀螨剂抗性的出现、化学防治成本的增加以及作为蜱虫侵袭组成部分的生产损失数据，这些因素促使将生态学原理纳入蜱虫控制。对蜱虫生命过程以及它们与宿主和环境相互作用的持续研究，引发了生产者对杀螨剂施用频率、栖息地操纵技术和宿主免疫利用的操控，这些对于制定经济上合适的蜱虫控制策略很重要。本文探讨了蜱虫生态学在确立这些概念中的作用及其对当前蜱虫研究的影响。
