Public safety aspects of pyrethroid insecticides used in West Nile virus-carrying mosquito control

Pest Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 625-627

  Gammon, Derek W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mosquito control; Pyrethroids; Resmethrin; Risk assessment; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID; RESMETHRIN;

CARCINOGEN; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; GENOTOXICITY; MOSQUITO; PUBLIC HEALTH; PYRETHROID; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; TOXICITY; TUMOR; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MICE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PYRETHRINS; RATS; WEST NILE FEVER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

RATTUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 34347381353     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1395     Document Type: Short Survey

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