Observations on effects of a neem seed extract (MiteStop®) on biting lice (mallophages) and bloodsucking insects parasitizing horses

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 335-339

  Al Quraishy, Saleh ^a   Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^b   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^a   Mehlhorn, Julia ^c   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; MITESTOP; NEEM SEED EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TAP WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONID; DILUTION; GENUS; HAIR; HORSE; HORSE HAIR; INSECT; LICKING FLY; LOUSE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULIID; TABANID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WERNECKIELLA;

ANIMALS; AZADIRACHTA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECTICIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; EQUIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHTHIRAPTERA; SIMULIIDAE; TABANIDAE;

EID: 84857049357     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2495-0     Document Type: Article

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