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Keywords: medical acarology, chemical control, geographical and chronological records of tick resistance to acaricides, percentage control of various strains of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus in stall trials, conceptual approaches to the management of Acari for overcoming resistance mechanisms, eradication of the resistant strain, importance of testing methods and the characterization of resistant strains in the management of Acari, prediction of likely useful life of a compound