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¹Scottish Agricultural Colleges Veterinary Investigation Centre, Auchincruive, Ayr, Gt. Britain.

Veterinary Parasitology

|November 1, 1989

Abstract:

Lambs aged 2 weeks were inoculated with a tick-borne fever (TBF) stabilate on Day 0 and Staphylococcus aureus-contaminated ticks were applied on Day 5. Tick pyaemia was produced experimentally for the first time using Ixodes ricinus as a mechanical vector of S. aureus. Lambs aged 18 weeks were rechallenged with a homologous strain of TBF, and S. aureus-infected ticks applied 5 days later. No significant changes were noted at post-mortem examination.

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