The synergistic action of imidacloprid and flumethrin and their release kinetics from collars applied for ectoparasite control in dogs and cats

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stanneck, Dorothee ^a   Ebbinghaus Kintscher, Ulrich ^b   Schoenhense, Eva ^b   Kruedewagen, Eva M ^a   Turberg, Andreas ^a   Leisewitz, Andrew ^c   Jiritschka, Wolfgang ^a   Krieger, Klemens J ^a  

^a BAYER AG   (Germany)

^b BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cat; Collar; Dog; Efficacy; Flumethrin; Imidacloprid; Slow release; Synergism

Indexed keywords

FLUMETHRIN; IMIDACLOPRID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PYRETHROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CAT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ECTOPARASITE; EX VIVO STUDY; FLEA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEPIDOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; TICK; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT DISEASE; DOG DISEASE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; FEMALE; MALE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; HEXAPODA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PYRETHRINS; SIPHONAPTERA; TICKS;

EID: 84859631590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-73     Document Type: Article

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