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TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102123
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Acaricide; Rhipicephalus microplus; Control
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Acaricide resistance is a global problem with economic and public health implications. The synganglion, the tick central nervous system, is a key target for acaricides and understanding its mode-of-action and resistance mechanisms can help develop new strategies for control.
Acaricide resistance is a global problem that has impacts worldwide. Tick populations with broad resistance to all commercially available acaricides have been reported. Since resistance selection in ticks and their role in pathogen transmission to animals and humans result in important economic and public health burden, it is essential to develop new strategies for their control (i.e., novel chemical compounds, vaccines, biological con-trol). The synganglion is the tick central nervous system and it is responsible for synthesizing and releasing signaling molecules with different physiological functions. Synganglion proteins are the targets of the majority of available acaricides. In this review we provide an overview of the mode-of-action and resistance mechanisms against neurotoxic acaricides in ticks, as well as putative target sites in synganglion, as a supporting tool to identify new target proteins and to develop new strategies for tick control.
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