AbstractThe objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an imidacloprid 10% and flumethrin 4.5% polymer matrix collar against the developmental stages of Haemaphysalis longicornis infesting dogs using the hair from treated dogs in a semi-in-vitro assay set. When incubated with 0.5 g of the hair collected from the dogs installed with the drug-embedded collar after 10 days, average death rate of the larval, nymphal, and adult H. longicornis was 21.5%, 77.9%, and 100% at 30 min, 1 hr, and 2 hr, respectively. This study showed the larval stages as well as the nymphal and adult stages of H. longicornis ticks are killed upon contact with the hair from dogs treated with the collar within 2 hr.
INTRODUCTIONThe speed and ability to kill both the juvenile and adult ticks are important factors for an acaricide to successfully prevent the transmission of tick-borne diseases in dogs. The tick-borne pathogens are transmitted from ticks to animals or to humans during a tick sucks blood and injects saliva containing pathogens into the host tissues. The transmission of diseases such as Lyme borreliosis takes 24 to 48 hr after a tick bite [1]. The Powassan virus causing encephalitis in humans can be transmitted to host animals in 15 min of tick attachment [2]. The transmission course emphasizes the importance of the speed kill of acaricides against ticks both for the prevention against tick bites and tick-borne pathogens. The ability of an acaricide to kill the larval stage of ticks as well as the nymphal and adult stages is also important, because evidence for the transovarial transmission of pathogens via the female-egg-larvae route in ticks have been well documented. Examples of transovarial transmission include Borrelia miyamotoi by Ixodes scapularis tick, Leishmania infantum by Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Rickettsia bellii by Ixodes loricatus and Babesia equi by Haemaphysalis longicornis [3–8]. In dogs, the transmission of pathogens via the transovarial route from infected female ticks to dogs by larval ticks was documented on Babesia gibsoni by Haemaphysalis hystrics and Rickettsia rickettsia by Rhipicephalus sanguineus [5, 6].
The role of larval ticks should therefore be considered important in the transmission of tick-borne diseases. It should be ensured that an acaricide kills larvae as well as ticks in the nymph and adult stages. However, it is difficult to assess the in-vivo clinical efficacy of drugs against the larval stage of ticks on host animals due to their minute size which hinders them from being found on the host’s skin, especially in the thick and/or colored hairs. For this reason, larvicidal assays of acaricides have used in-vitro systems such as Food and Agriculture Organization larval packet test (LPT) or larval immersion microassay (LIM) [9,10]. However, limitations exist with these assays to obtain information on in-vivo acaricidal efficacy on the host animal skin after acaricides are applied.
The host hair from dogs treated with certain insecticides such as pyrethroids or neonicotinoids are coated with a small amount of the chemicals, which is enough to kill ticks or fleas upon contact with the hair [11–13]. It was reported that adult cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis Bouche’ 1835) died within 50–90 min on contact with hair from imidacloprid (Advantage®, Elanco Animal Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)-treated dogs, whereas adult fleas, having contact with hair of untreated control dogs, were found alive even 7 days after the beginning of the experiments [11]. The hair removed from a treated dog with a contact-kill acaricide can, therefore, be used to assess the speed of kill against ticks. Seresto® (Elanco Animal Health) is a contact-kill collar product for dogs and cats that provides long term broad spectrum parasiticidal activity by combining the insecticidal properties of imidacloprid (10%) with the acaricidal properties of flumethrin (4.5%). The active ingredients spread from the site of direct contact over the entire skin surface of the treated animal and provide the long term steady and continuous release of the ingredients by the collar matrix system [14]. The product offers a breakthrough in protection against fleas and ticks for dogs. It was documented that a preventive efficacy against ticks in dogs varied between 91.2% and 100% (overall mean: 94.7%) for 8 months [15].
The purpose of this study is twofold: to assess the time taken to exterminate larvae, nymphs, and adults of the species in contact with the hair from the host dogs treated with the collar using a semi-in-vitro assay, and to evaluate the efficacy of 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin polymer matrix collar against Haemaphysalis longicornis tick infestation on dogs.
MATERIALS AND METHODSEthics approvalA randomized, controlled efficacy trial was conducted in the animal care facility at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea. The design and experimental procedures used in this study followed the rules and regulations of the Korea Animal Protection Law (No. 13023, articles 8 and 9). This study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Chonnam National University (CNU IACUC-YB-2018-81).
AnimalsBefore the semi-in-vitro assay using the hair from treated dogs was performed, an in-vivo clinical efficacy of an ectoparasiticide against H. longicornis infestation in dogs was conducted to confirm its efficacy in field conditions. Twelve healthy young dogs between 2 and 6 months old of both sexes with no history of tick infestation or exposure to tick habitats were enrolled in this study. Each dog received 3 doses of a vaccine against canine distemper, adenovirus Type 2, parvovirus, and parainfluenza (Vanguard® Plus 5, Zoetis, Parsippany, New Jersey, USA). All dogs were dewormed with a combination of praziquantel, pyrantel pamoate, and fenbantel (Drontal® plus; Elanco Animal Health) before being enrolled in this study. Dogs were individually housed in wire mesh cages (90×70× 60 cm) and were fed commercial feed once per day, with water provided ad libitum. Six dogs were randomly assigned to the treatment group and 6 dogs in the untreated control group. On day -3, a polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin (Seresto®, Elanco Animal Health) was applied to all 6 dogs in the treatment group according to the manufacturer’s instructions: dogs ≤8 kg received a small collar and dogs >8 kg received a large collar.
In vivo drug efficacy evaluationOn day 0, all 12 dogs were naturally exposed to ticks by walking them for 1 hr in wooded and bushy areas with tall grass and leaf litter in Yeongkwang-gun, Jeonnam, Korea (35°14′39.5″N 126°35′08.7″E) where H. longicornis was found to be the dominant species of ticks in a preliminary investigation. The exposure of dogs to ticks was repeated on day 30. From day 1, each dog was clinically examined, and ticks were searched for once daily until all ticks became detached from the host. Dogs were examined daily for the presence of ticks by thumb counting, with examination of the cephalic, ventral, dorsal, and leg regions. Both nymphal and adult stages of ticks attached to the skin of the host animal were counted, and those ticks crawling around on the skin were not counted. Representative tick specimens (1 or 2 adult ticks per dog) were identified as H. longicornis based on morphology [16].
The efficacy of the collar against ticks was calculated as follows: Efficacy=(mean total number of ticks on control dogs–mean total number of ticks on treated dogs)/(mean total number of ticks on control dogs)×100. Collars were deemed effective against ticks if the calculated efficacy, based on arithmetic and geometric means, was at least 90% [17].
In vitro drug efficacy evaluationFor the semi-in-vitro assay, the larval, nymphal, and adult stages of ticks were co-cultured with hair from dogs collected on day 10 after the application of the collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin. Hair was collected from 3 dogs randomly selected from the treatment group and 3 dogs from the untreated control group at the dorsal medial line of each dog approximately 20 cm away from the collar. Collected hair was individually weighed, cut into pieces of approximately 5–10 mm long, and 0.5 g of hair from each dog was placed in a 50 ml conical centrifuge tube (Hyundai Micro Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea). Each conical centrifuge tube contained a 1.5 ml micro-centrifuge tube sealed at the inner top wall of the 50 ml tube using a hot melt glue gun (Fig. 1). A small amount of sterilized cotton soaked with distilled water was inserted into the micro-centrifuge tube to provide humidity inside the 50 ml tube. Disposable gloves and scissors were used to prevent any contamination between hair samples.
Fifteen larvae, nymphs, or adults of H. longicornis were placed inside each of the 50 ml tube containing 0.5 g of the host hair collected from dogs installed with the collar or from the untreated control dogs. Larvae of H. longicornis were obtained from newly hatched eggs from engorged adult females in the laboratory, and additional nymphs and adults were collected from wooded fields at the study site for natural infection. The tubes were closed tightly and were incubated for 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, and 24 hr at room temperature (25°C). At each incubation time point, the number of live and dead ticks were counted using a dissecting microscope. Ticks were considered dead if they showed no movement and did not move or respond to prodding with a fine-tipped needle. Acaricidal efficacy was determined by comparing the mean number of live ticks remaining on the treated dog hair with the mean number of dead mites remaining on the control dog hair.
RESULTSEfficacy of 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin in a polymer matrix collar against H. longicornis ticks in a field trialIn the untreated control group of 6 dogs on day 0 to H. longicornis-populated fields 3 days after the application of the polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin, an average of 30.0, 38.1, and 36.1 ticks were found on the host animals on days 1, 2, and 3 after exposure to ticks (Data not shown in Table). The highest number of ticks attached to the host skin were observed on day 2 because there were some ticks still crawling around on day 1. The majority of ticks finished feeding on blood and detached from the host from day 4 after exposure, leaving an average of 6.6 ticks remaining on the host skin on day 4 and 0.3 ticks on day 7. Ticks were not found on the host skin from day 8 onwards in the control group. On the other hand, no ticks were found on any of the 6 dogs applied with the collar during the study period.
Although the average number of ticks attached to dogs was smaller than the first exposure, an average of 18.7, 21.2, and 14.9 ticks were found on the host animals on days 1, 2, and 3 after exposure to ticks (Data not shown in Table). The majority of ticks finished feeding on blood and detached from the host from day 4 after exposure, leaving an average of 4.6 ticks remaining on the host skin on day 4 and 0.4 ticks on day 7. Same as in the first exposure, ticks were not found from any of the 6 dogs treated with the drug-embedded collar on the second exposure. Dogs in both groups did not show any abnormal clinical signs of side-effects such as loss of appetite, vomiting, depression, or lethargy during the study period.
Efficacy of 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin in a polymer matrix collar against the developmental stages of ticks by the semi-in-vitro assayThe efficacy of host hair collected from dogs treated with the polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin against larval-, nymphal- and adult-stage ticks is summarized in Table 1. When larval stage ticks of H. longicornis ticks were incubated with the host hair from the drug-treated dogs, 24.4%, 95.5%, and 100.0% of ticks were killed within 30 min, 1 hr, and 2 hr after incubation respectively. Similar results were obtained when the nymphal- and adult-stages of H. longicornis were incubated with the host hair. Overall, averages of 21.5%, 77.9%, and 100% of ticks were killed within 30 min, 1 hr, and 2 hr after incubation with host hair from dogs in the drug-treated group respectively. On the contrary, all developmental stages of H. longicornis ticks incubated with the host hair from the untreated control dogs survived throughout the test period (24 hr).
DISCUSSIONSome chemicals such as pyrethrins, phrethroids, neonicotinoids, phenylpyrazoles, metaflumizone, and macrocyclic lactones of the spinosyn group are contact-kill insecticides [13]. Flumethrin, a second generation of photostable pyrethrins, and imidacloprid, one of neonicotinoid insecticides are the 2 active ingredients embedded in the polymer matrix collar that kill fleas and ticks on contact. The semi-in-vitro assay used in this study shows that the larval, nymph, and adult stages of H. longicornis ticks are efficiently killed upon contact with hair from dogs treated with the collar within 2 hr.
It is difficult to assess the time to kill ticks that are on the host animal down to the hourly or minute intervals in conventional clinical studies of drug efficacy using live animals because it takes considerable, and challenging, time to find live ticks that are scattered around the host body after infestation. It is especially so when measuring the time to kill nymphs or larvae due to their minute sizes that are difficult to find in the midst of the host’s hair. The in-vitro evaluation of a drug’s efficacy using either a filter paper impregnated with a test drug or immersion of ticks in a drug-diluted solution before incubation in filter paper clips was therefore frequently used [18,19]. However, the filter paper or immersion tests do not represent the speed of the killing by an acaricide in situ on the host animal’s skin. The semi-in-vitro assay using the hair from drug-treated dogs, on the other hand, can assess the efficacy of the speed of extermination by an acaricide down to hourly or even minute intervals.
The results of our study also indicate that tick-borne diseases by H. longicornis ticks can be further prevented by a polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin, because ticks are expected to be killed even before they attach themselves to the host’s skin and start feeding on blood. The Asian long-horned tick (or bush tick in Australia), H. longicornis, is prevalent in Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea, and the far-east of Russia; and it has also been found in Australia, New Zealand, several Pacific islands (Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu), and more recently in North America [20–23]. Besides its role as a vector for Theileria orientalis in livestock and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) in humans [24,25], this species is the vector of Babesia gibsoni for dogs in Asia [26], and is also a putative vector of Hepatozoon canis [27], Rickettsia japonica [28], Borrelia, Bartonella, Anaplasma, and Ehrlichia [29].
Both pyrethroids and neonicotinoids act through contact. Pyrethroids such as flumethrin, permethrin, and deltamethrin kill insects and mites by opening Na+ channels, inducing nerve cell membrane depolarization [13]. Neonicotinoids such as imidacloprid, nitenpyram, and dinotefuran act like agonists on postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, mainly in motoneurons, inducing nerve membrane depolarization, which causes spastic paralysis in insects. The absence of ticks on the host’s skins in the treatment group in the field exposure study is therefore due to the contact killing of imidacloprid and flumethrin embedded in the collar, even before ticks inserted their hypostomes into the hosts’ skins.
Although the number of dogs enrolled in this study is small to draw any statistical significance, this study clearly illustrates that the drug-treated collar (Seresto®) can successfully prevent dogs from undergoing H. longicornis infestation, as shown by the high efficacy against tick infestation in the 2 field exposures of dogs to areas where H. longicornis is populated (Data not shown in Table). Number of previous reports demonstrated the long-term efficacy of the product against ticks and fleas in dogs and cats. In multicenter clinical field studies in dogs and cats in Europe, Stanneck et al. [15] reported that the imidacloprid/flumethrin collar proved to reduce tick counts by at least 90% and flea counts by at least 95% for a period of at least 7–8 months in cats and dogs under field conditions. Brianti et al. [30] also reported the efficacy of the collar in 82 dogs that the mean intensity of ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu alto) decreased to 3.5 with a reduction of 92.5%. In a parallel group study on the speed of kill, repellent ability, and acaricidal efficacy of Seresto® and Broadline® (Merial) against artificially-induced infestations with Ixodes ricinus on cats, Seresto® proved to be 100% effective against adult I. ricinus at all assessment times (6, 12, 24, and 48 hr after infestation) throughout the month-long study [30]. Since the tick counts were done only on days 0 and 30 and only 12 dogs were enrolled in our study, a direct comparison of results with previous studies would not be relevant, and the study group (only 6 treated dogs and 6 as a control) is too small for a reliable statistical analysis. However, the combination of the field study using 12 dogs and the semi-in-vitro assay using the host hair from treated dogs demonstrates the excellent efficacy of the polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin against all 3 developmental stages of H. longicornis ticks.
The semi-in-vitro assay using the hair from treated dogs may not be applicable to evaluate acaricides with systemic modes of action. While some active ingredients that are used in spot-on formulations or collars that act upon contact with the arthropods; others are systemic and/or mixed in their mode of action with a transcutaneous penetration and a plasma circulation [13]. Systemic insecticides are drugs whose active ingredient is distributed by blood circulation regardless of the route of administration. Systemic insecticides currently being used in dogs against tick infestation were identified which include imidacloprid, spinosad, fluralaner, afoxolaner, sarolaner, lufenuron, and nitenpyram [31–33].
In conclusion,this study showed that ticks are successfully prevented by applying the polymer matrix collar containing 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin. and the semi-in-vitro assay using the hair from dogs can be a useful tool to evaluate the contact-kill efficacy of acaricides.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTThis study was supported in part by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Republic of Korea (Grant No. 315016-3-C00).
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![]() ![]() Fig. 1A semi-in vitro acaricide assay set. (A) A disposable 50 ml conical centrifuge tube with a 1.5 ml micro-centrifuge tube sealed to inner top wall using a hot melt glue gun. A small amount of sterilized cotton soaked with distilled water was inserted into the micro-centrifuge tube to provide humidity in the 50 ml tube. (B) The dog hairs and 15 Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks (black dots) were co-incubated in the 50 ml conical tube. ![]() Table 1Efficacy of the hair from dogs treated with 10% imidacloprid and 4.5% flumethrin incorporated in a polymer matrix collar against the developmental stages of Haemphysalis longicornis
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