ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2008, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 79-84.doi:

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Construction of Rabbit Immunity Model Against Haemaphysalis longicornis and Its Effects on H. longicornis Adult Growth

XIE Jun-ren;LIU Guang-yuan;TIAN Zhan-cheng;LI Zhi-xin;JIA Ning   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology,Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046,China; 2. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University ,Lanzhou 730070,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-01-24 Published:2008-01-24

Abstract: In this study the rabbit immunity model against Haemaphysalis longicornis was constructed by infestation with H. longicornis adult quantitatively every two weeks. The results of ELISA showed that the antibody was positive three weeks post the first infection, the antibody level rising with the increasing of infection and reached the peak at the 11th week. The resistance of rabbit against H. longicornis significantly influenced the H. longicornis plump-blooding period. The antibody level was positively correlated to the bloodsucking period and the mortality of female H. longicornis adult and negatively correlated to the weight of plumpblooding female adult. These results indicated that the salivary gland is one of the main organs in the anti-H. longicornis immunity. The maintenance of the antibody level was long enough to make H. longicornis to complete a generation, which satisfied the experiment requirement. So it is an ideal model for anti-H. longicornis immunity positive control research. At the same time, the specific antibody level in the serum can be one of the important indexes to evaluate the extent of animal resistance to H. longicornis.