Can insecticide-treated netting provide protection for Equids from Culicoides biting midges in the United Kingdom?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Baker, Tiffany ^a,b   Carpenter, Simon ^b   Gubbins, Simon ^b   Newton, Richard ^c   Lo Iacono, Giovanni ^d   Wood, James ^d   Harrup, Lara Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African horse sickness virus; Culicoides; Seasonal recurrent allergic dermatitis; Sweet itch; WHO cone bioassay

Indexed keywords

CYPERMETHRIN; INSECT REPELLENT; PYRETHROID; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; BIOASSAY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONE BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES BRUNNICANS; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; EQUIDAE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROTECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMAL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HORSE; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; PHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS; AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HORSES; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PYRETHRINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84947907732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1182-x     Document Type: Article

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