Use of permethrin eradicated the tropical rat mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) from a colony of mutagenized and transgenic mice

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 31-34

  Hill, William A ^a   Randolph, Mildred M ^a   Boyd, Kelli L ^b   Mandrell, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMETHRIN; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MITE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; ORNITHONYSSUS BACOTI; PARASITE CONTROL; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; DERMATITIS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; MUTATION; PERMETHRIN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MUS MUSCULUS; ORNITHONYSSUS BACOTI; RODENTIA;

EID: 25144514402     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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