Ivermectin as a systemic insecticide on Culex quinquefasciatus and Simulium squamosum.

Citation
F. Chandre et Jm. Hougard, Ivermectin as a systemic insecticide on Culex quinquefasciatus and Simulium squamosum., B S PATH EX, 92(1), 1999, pp. 71-72
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health
Journal title
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DE PATHOLOGIE EXOTIQUE
ISSN journal
00379085 → ACNP
Volume
92
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
71 - 72
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9085(199902)92:1<71:IAASIO>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The mortality of Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes having fed ten days earl ier on a chicken treated by 2 000 mu g/kg of ivermectin (about ten times th e therapeutic dosage) is about 25% higher than the mortality recorded on mo squitoes having fed on a non treated chicken. This systemic effect occurs o nly if the blood meal takes place between 7 and 31 hours after the administ ration of the drug. However no systemic effect is recorded either with the C, quinquefasciatus mosquito or with the Simulium squamosum black fly when they are fed on human beings treated at the therapeutic dose.