Passive Prophylaxis With Permethrin-Treated Tents Reduces Mosquito Bites Among North American Summer Campers

Tick bite protection with permethrin-treated summer-weight clothing.

The number of tick bites received by individuals wearing either permethrin-treated or untreated summer clothing (T-shirt, shorts, socks, and sneakers) was compared during a controlled indoor study. Pathogen-free nymphal Ixodes scapularis Say were placed on the left shoe, right leg, and left arm of 15 (5/treatment group/d) human volunteers wearing untreated outfits or outfits treated with permet...

How Efficient Are Permethrin-Treated And Deet-Treated Uniforms in Protecting Soldiers from Tick Bites

DESIGN AND INTERVENTION BDUs of following four treatment categories were exposed to field populations of ticks: untreated (control), deettreated, permethrin-impregnated (PI), and permethrin-sprayed (PS). Six sites of 1ha (2.5 acres) were selected for a relative abundance of ixodid ticks. Sites were selected to ensure maximum exposure to (1) the ticks of all three growth stages — larval, nymphal...

North American Wetlands and Mosquito Control

Wetlands are valuable habitats that provide important social, economic, and ecological services such as flood control, water quality improvement, carbon sequestration, pollutant removal, and primary/secondary production export to terrestrial and aquatic food chains. There is disagreement about the need for mosquito control in wetlands and about the techniques utilized for mosquito abatement and...

Lymphoid neoplasms associated with mosquito bites.

Permethrin as a tent treatment for protection against field populations of Aedes mosquitoes.

A tent treated with an oil-based 1% permethrin formulation (0.936 g AI/m2) was evaluated for protection against Aedes spp. Mosquito biting assessment was conducted in the field using 8 human subjects positioned inside and outside tents. Subjects inside tents received 66.8% fewer bites than subjects outside tents prior to treatment. Following treatment, subjects inside the treated tent had signi...