Wednesday, 29 October 2003
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This presentation is part of : Display Presentations, Section D. Medical and Veterinary Entomology

A case of more deer and fewer Ixodes scapularis?

John F. Carroll, ARS, USDA, Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Building 1040, BARC East, Beltsville, MD and Rhonda Hurt, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Clopper Road, Gaithersbug, MD.

A dense population of white-tailed deer was diminished over a period of several years by a contraceptive program. A possible consequence of the gradual restoration of the overbrowsed ecosystem, as deer numbers declined, has been an increase in blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis.

Species 1: Acari Ixodidae Ixodes scapularis (blacklegged tick, deer tick)
Keywords: host, contraception

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