Location: Livestock Arthropod Pests Research
Project Number: 3094-32000-042-001-N
Project Type: Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jan 1, 2015
End Date: Dec 31, 2019
Objective:
Assessment of ticks' resistance to acaricides towards development of strategies to improve surveillance and control of tick-borne diseases of ruminants in the Caribbean region.
Approach:
Confirm and better characterize the resistance of Cattle Tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus in the French Antilles, using the Larval Tarsal Test (LTT).
