Abstract
THE study of parasitic and disease-producing Protozoa, which has received such a great impetus of recent years, has caused much attention to be paid also to those groups of animals which, bv their blood-sucking habits, are instrumental in transmitting the parasitic organisms from one vertebrate host to another. Ever since Smith and Kilborne first made known the rôle of ticks in transmitting Texas-fever in cattle, much attention has been directed to this group of arachnids.which were subsequently found to be the intermediary for the transmission of the remittent fevers, caused by the presence of spirochætes in the blood, of man in Africa, and of domestic fowls in various countries.
Ticks.
A Monograph of the Ixodoidea. Part i. (Argasidæ). (London: Cambridge University Press, 1908.) Price 5s. net.
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Ticks . Nature 79, 219–220 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079219c0
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