Effects of knockdown resistance (kdr) were investigated in three pyrethroid-resistant (RR) strains of the Afrotropical mosquito Anopheles gambiae Giles (Diptera: Culicidae): Kou from Burkina Faso, Tola and Yao from Côte d'Ivoire; compared with a standard susceptible (SS) strain from Kisumu, Kenya. The kdr factor was incompletely recessive, conferring 43-fold resistance ratio at LD50 level and 2...

In this chapter, aerogel particles are prepared from W/O lotion, the emulsification mechanism of lotion is briefly described, and factors affecting preparation microspheres studied. Through a series characterization tests, it known that: properly increasing temperature can accelerate gel reaction rate shorten time; The stirring surface modifier have certain effects on density porosity aerogel. ...

Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse), two important vectors of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever, were collected from Mae Sot, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Ratchasima, Surat Thani, and Phatthalung, Thailand, from July 2003 to April 2004. The patterns of insecticide susceptibility to temephos, malathion, and permethrin of both Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus larvae were determined. Ae....

To ilic Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?During the past few years, tannic acid has come into considerable vogue for the treatment of burns. As House Surgeon in the Sir J. J. Hospital in Bombay in 1927-28 I had to treat many cases of burns, but was unsuccessful with tannic acid. I asked my chief, Mr. S. R. Moolgavkar, f.r.c.s., as to the reason for this, and he gave me the following adv...

behaviour studies indicated that the permethrin resistant strin of an. stephensi was 3-fold resistant to knock-down compared with the susceptible strain. the resistant strain was however 3-fold less irritable to permethrin and less responsive than the susceptible strain to the movement of an aspirator. if reduced irritability and reduced responsiveness to catch are consequences of the changes i...

Title: A Pilot Single Centre, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Randomized, Parallel Study of Calmagen® Dermaceutical Cream and Lotion for the Topical Treatment of Tinea and Onychomycosis Authors: Manoj Parekh ([email protected]) Girisha Ramaiah ([email protected]) Prachi Pashilkar ([email protected]) Ranjani Ramanujam ([email protected]) Peter Johnston (peter@bi...

background: pediculosis capitis is a common parasitic infection of children. in this study we assessed the prevalence of head pediculosis among the middle schoolchildren in the urban and rural areas of fars province, southern iran.methods: all middle schoolchildren ages 11-14, in all the urban and rural areas of the province were screened for head lice infestation by examining their hair and sc...

Under chloroform the intestines were washed with warm boric lotion and carefully put back into the abdominal cavity. There were a few small splinters of wood found in the su1 perficial wound, which were carefully removed, | and the wound washed clean with warm boric lotion The peritoneum was sutured with aseptic catgut and skin with horse-hair ; thoroughly dusted with iodoform and dressed. Opiu...

Two U.S. military issue deet repellent formulations (75% deet liquid and 33% deet lotion) and Avon Skin-So-Soft were tested against ceratopogonid midges under field conditions in Honduras. Test subjects were U.S. military personnel deployed to Honduras for training. Culicoides furens accounted for 96.3% of all midges collected. The liquid and lotion formulations of deet and Avon Skin-So-Soft pr...