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THE TICK COLLECTION


INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANCE OF TICKS
HARD TICKS
SOFT TICKS
HISTORY OF COLLECTION




INTRODUCTION


Amblyomma variegatum

There are two parts to the Tick Collection housed in the Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings:

The main general collection consisting of ticks from all zoogeographical regions and collected from domestic stock and companion animals; wild amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.


A specialised collection of ticks from wild animals in Ghana collected by Dr Y. Ntiamoa-Baidu, the Ghanian Wildlife Department.



There are two catalogues of the Tick Collection:

A paper catalogue prepared by Dr J. A. Campbell lists accession numbers, tick species, gender and country of origin.


An 'Electronic' catalogue created in 2001 holds all the data for the general collection of specimens and for the Ghanian ticks of wild animals on Access Databases. These databases were created with support from the European Union International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, as part of its 'Virtual Tick Museum Programme'.

Rhipicephalus appendiculatus
Dermacentor andersoni




INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANCE OF TICKS
HARD TICKS
SOFT TICKS
HISTORY OF COLLECTION



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