Feed-through insecticides for the control of the sand fly Phlebotomus argentipes

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-18

  Ingenloff, K ^a   Garlapati, R ^a   Poche D ^a   Singh, M I ^b   Remmers, J L ^a   Poche R M ^a  

^a Genesis Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b Pestiscience Intelligentsia   (India)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Fipronil; Phlebotomus argentipes; Vector control; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

DIFLUBENZURON; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FIPRONIL; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; FECES; FLY; INSECTICIDE; LEISHMANIASIS; MORTALITY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MURINAE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIFLUBENZURON; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; IVERMECTIN; LARVA; MALE; MURINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS; PYRAZOLES; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

BANDICOTA; BANDICOTA BENGALENSIS; DIPTERA; MURIDAE; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS ARGENTIPES; PSYCHODIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84873995309     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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