Susceptibility of Culicoides species biting midges to deltamethrin-treated nets as determined under laboratory and field conditions in the Balearic Islands, Spain

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 414-420

  Del Rio R ^a   Barcelo C ^a   Paredes Esquivel, C ^a   Lucientes, J ^b   Miranda, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Culicoides imicola; Culicoides obsoletus; Impregnated nets; Insecticides; Pyrethroids

Indexed keywords

DELTAMETHRIN; POLYETHYLENE; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID;

ARTICLE; BALEARIC ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CATANEII; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES JUMINERI; CULICOIDES LONGIPENNIS; CULICOIDES MARITIMUS; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PAOLAE; CULICOIDES PARROTI; CULICOIDES PICTIPENNIS; CULICOIDES UNIVITTATUS; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NONHUMAN; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DRUG EFFECTS; SPAIN;

AFRICAN HORSESICKNESS VIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; INSECTICIDES; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS; SPAIN;

EID: 84922765377     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12072     Document Type: Article

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