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Mechanism of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids in buffalo flies in south-east Queensland.
Australian veterinary journal - 1 Mar 2011
Rothwell J T, Morgan J A T, James P J, Brown G W, Guerrero F D, Jorgensen W K
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to synthetic pyrethroids (SP) was first recorded in buffalo flies in Australia in 1980, associated with previous use of DDT and fenvalerate. By the 1990s, resistance was widespread. Resistance to SP in the related horn fly of the Americas is associated with kdr and super-kdr mutations in a gene encoding for a voltage-gated sodium channel. We describe 7-20-fold resistance to SP in buffalo flies from...
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