The effect of a topical insecticide containing permethrin on the number of Culicoides midges caught near horses with and without insect bite hypersensitivity in the Netherlands

Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde

Volumn 133, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 838-842

  De Raat, I J ^a   Van Den Boom, R ^a   Van Poppel, M ^a   Sloet Van Oldruitenborgh Oosterbaan, M M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT BITE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PERMETHRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHIRONOMIDAE; EQUIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 54249113626     PISSN: 00407453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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