Journal
PATHOGENS
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10111379
Keywords
ticks; natural compounds; efficacy; standardization
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- Villamagna S.A.
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Tick control is a priority to prevent vector-borne diseases, with a trend towards alternative control methods using natural products. Standardization of natural product components and extraction techniques is needed to fully discover their acaricidal potential.
Tick control is a priority in order to prevent the transmission of vector-borne diseases. Industrial chemical acaricides and repellents have been the most efficient tools against hard ticks for a long time. However, the appearance of resistances has meant the declining effectiveness of the chemicals available on the market. The trend today is to develop alternative control methods using natural products to replace nonefficient pesticides and to preserve the efficient ones, hoping to delay resistance development. Traditional in vitro evaluation of acaricidal activity or resistance to synthetic pesticides have been reviewed and they mainly focus on just one species, the one host tick (Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)). Recent reports have called for the standardization of natural product components, extraction techniques, and experimental design to fully discover their acaricidal potential. This study reviews the main variables used in the bibliography about the efficiency of natural products against ticks, and it proposes a unification of variables relating to ticks, practical development of bioassays, and estimation of ixodicidal activity.
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