Tolerance of house fly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) to dichlorvos (76% EC) an insecticide used for fly control in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of southern India

Acta Tropica

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-190

  Srinivasan, R ^a   Jambulingam, P ^a   Gunasekaran, K ^a   Boopathidoss, P S ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Dichlorvos; Fly control; Fly resistance; Southern India; Tsunami affected coastal villages

Indexed keywords

DICHLORVOS; INSECTICIDE;

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL ZONE; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; INSECTICIDE; MORTALITY; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TSUNAMI; VILLAGE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FLY; HOUSE FLY; INDIA; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LD 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASHORE; TSUNAMI;

ANIMALS; DICHLORVOS; FEMALE; HOUSEFLIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; NATURAL DISASTERS; RURAL POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

DIPTERA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE;

EID: 38349189186     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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