Less is more: Restricted application of insecticide to cattle to improve the cost and efficacy of tsetse control

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-64

  Torr, S J ^a   Maudlin, I ^b   Vale, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cattle; Deltamethrin; Glossina; Insecticide treated cattle; Trypanosomiasis; Tsetse; Vector control; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID;

CATTLE; DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; PERSISTENCE; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; SEASON; TIME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY; ZIMBABWE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLIES; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; DIPTERA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALLIDIPES; GLOSSINIDAE; IXODIDA;

EID: 33947311686     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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