New cattle tick vaccine on the cards.

A new one dose tick vaccine may not be far away, thanks to the work of University of Queensland researchers.

Professor Tim Mahony has been spearheading the Meat and Livestock Australia funded research, aimed at delivering the once-per-season dose cattle tick vaccine to producers.

Professor Mahony said he first got involved in the research eight or nine years ago, with it all starting from a project being run by the Polymer CRC.

"There was a cattle tick vaccine that was developed by CSIRO in the 80s and came onto the market in the 1990s," he said.

"It was quite effective but you needed to give the cattle at least two doses and when your main market is the northern beef industry, giving them two doses didn't fit well with their normal on-property routines."

Professor Mahony said the project was important because tick infestations cost northern beef operations more than $150 million in lost production each year.

The new vaccine has been designed to used as a single dose per season, with the goal of improving productivity and even allowing the use of more Bos taurus genetics in northern herds.

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