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Molecular survey of knockdown resistance to pyrethroids in human scabies mites.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Feb 2014
Andriantsoanirina V, Izri A, Botterel F, Foulet F, Chosidow O, Durand R
Abstract excerpt
There are growing concerns about the emergence of resistance of Sarcoptes scabiei to permethrin and other pyrethroid derivatives. Sarcoptes scabiei mites collected from 40 patients visiting two hospitals near Paris, France, were genotypically characterized considering two parts of their voltage-sensitive sodium channel gene. No nucleotide polymorphism resulting in a codon change at codon 733 or other positions...
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