Efficacy of indoor residual spraying using lambda-cyhalothrin for controlling nontarget vector fleas (Siphonaptera) on commensal rats in a plague endemic region of northwestern Uganda

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1027-1034

  Borchert, Jeff N ^a   Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Atiku, Linda A ^b   Delorey, Mark J ^a   Mpanga, Joseph T ^b   Babi, Nackson ^b   Enscore, Russell E ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

flea; Indoor residual spray; lambda cyhalothrin; plague; Rattus rattus

Indexed keywords

CYHALOTHRIN; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLEA; HOUSING; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PLAGUE; RAT; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; NITRILES; PLAGUE; PYRETHRINS; RATS; SIPHONAPTERA; UGANDA;

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84866358296     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/ME11230     Document Type: Article

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