Compositions of either the Rm86Texas protein from a Texas outbreak strain of the southern cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, or a nucleic acid construct incorporating a nucleic acid sequence encoding this Rm86Texas protein, are effective for eliciting a protective immune response in non-bovine animals. The Rm86Texas protein is immunogenic and can be administered as a protein vaccine, or in the alternative, the nucleic acid construct can be utilized as a DNA vaccine. Induction of the immune response significantly reduces or eliminates the infestation of treated, non-bovine animals with ticks. Moreover, as ticks are vectors of a variety of pathogens, the reduction in the incidence of tick infestation afforded by the vaccines may concurrently reduce the incidence of diseases caused by these pathogens in susceptible animals.

The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical Colloge

Vaccination with anti-tick antigens to control multiple tick species and disease transmission in white-tailed deer and other host animals

This invention is an extracorporal thermo-therapy device having inlets and outlets being connected in shunt to a human body's blood vessel system, thereby providing the blood with a detour outside the body, thus becoming an integral part of the body's circulatory fluid system. The fluid system includes not only the blood itself but also all other body fluids (through the intra-corporal exchange between the blood and all other body fluids) for example the serum from the lymphatic system. The puropose of the invention is to use the process and device described to generate extracorporal fever in the blood to a level of around 2.degree. C. above normal body temperature everytime it is on said detour, thus activating the body's own immune system by stimulating the production of white blood cells and antibodies. If the device is used to generate extracorporal fever to a level of around 2.degree. C. above high fever body temperature in the blood everytime it is on said detour, the purpose of the apparatus and process described is to act as an attenuater repeatedly combating viruses with the ultimate purpose of become an assassin and annihilating them. Penetrants such as hyaluronidase, alcohol and salicyclic acid are added to the removed blood flow at appropriate points.

Extracorporal thermo-therapy device and method for curing diseases using penetrants

This invention is an extracorporal thermo-therapy device having inlets and outlets being connected in shunt to a human body's blood vessel system, thereby providing the blood with a detour outside the body, thus becoming an integral part of the body's circulatory fluid system. The fluid system includes not only the blood itself but also all other body fluids (through the intra-corporal exchange between the blood and all other body fluids) for example the serum from the lymphatic system. The purpose of the invention is to use the process and device described to generate extracorporal fever in the blood to a level of around 2 C. above normal body temperature everytime it is on said detour, thus activating the body's own immune system by stimulating the production of white blood cells and antibodies. If the device is used to generate extracorporal fever to a level of around 2 C. above high fever body temperature in the blood everytime it is on said detour, the purpose of the apparatus and process described is to act as an Attenuator repeatedly combating viruses with the ultimate purpose of becoming an assassin and annihilating them. The blood can be allowed to enter into the body at a low fever temperature, in order to stimulate the body's immune system in vivo. Many people have been identified by diagnosis as being infected by AIDS. In such people AIDS is in most cases dormant: they do not have the symptoms of the disease but they are infectious carriers of the AIDS virus and therefore a danger to others. People who are carriers of the AIDS virus but are not victims of the symptoms are in fact more dangerous to mankind than the victims of the symptoms, as their contact with people is not controlled and their number is many times higher. However, the invention combined with additional features and medicaments does facilitate the curing of serious diseases such as AIDS, at a fully developed stage, and also malignant cancer tumors. This extracorporal thermo-therapy method involves a continuous and persistent process, and so will have a greater effect than an intermittant treatment, for example a batch process, because--according to the invention--the unwanted viruses and unwanted cells will not be allowed the opportunity to strengthen, multiply, and reattack. The invention with the additional features and medicaments is described.

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Vaccination with anti-tick antigens to control multiple tick species and disease transmission in white-tailed deer and other host animals

Extracorporal thermo-therapy device and method for curing diseases using penetrants

Extracorporal thermo-therapy device and method for curing diseases

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