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THE presence of an arsenic-resistant tick, a strain of the one-host blue tick, Boophilus decoloratus Koch, was first suspected in the East London district of South Africa in 1938. Proof of this was furnished by Omer-Cooper and Whitnall1 in 1945. It now appears that this same strain of tick has also developed a resistance to Î-benzene hexachlorido (B.H.C.).
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Omer-Cooper, J., and Whitnall, A. B. M., Nature, 156, 450 (1945).
Whitnall, A. B. M., and Bradford, B., Bull. Ent. Res., 38, 353 (1947).
Whitnall, A. B. M., and Bradford, B., Bull. Ent. Res. (in the press).
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WHITNALL, A., THORBURN, J., WHITEHEAD, G. et al. A Tick Resistant to Î-Benzene Hexachloride. Nature 164, 956–957 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164956a0
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