Evaluation of flea control strategies using fipronil on cats in a controlled simulated home environment
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Three groups of six cats were kept in similar carpeted pens in which a self‐replicating population of Ctenocephalides felis had been established. One group was left untreated, but the other groups were treated every 28th day with 0.5 ml of a 10 per cent fipronil spot‐on formulation, and the cats in one of the treated groups also wore a methoprene collar. No fleas were found on any of the treated cats, either during the first 13 weeks of the study, when heavy flea burdens were developing in the control pen, or over the next 11 weeks when a declining number of fleas was present on the control group.
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Control and prevention of flea infections rely on strategic treatments with persistent adulticidal products and/or with chemicals acting against off-host immature stages along with adulticides, if an infestation already pre-exists.
“Control and prevention of flea infections rely on strategic treatments with persistent adulticidal products (e.g. imidacloprid) and/or with chemicals acting against off-host immature stages (e.g. lufenuron) along with adulticides, if an infestation already pre-exists [7,104,171-174].”
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- Authors
- Hutchinson, M. J., Jacobs, D. E., Fox, M. T., Jeannin, P., & Postal, J. ‐.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Merial, Research and Development 4 chemin du Calquet F31057 Toulouse France
- ORCID
- Fox, M. T.
- Venue
- Veterinary Record
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1998-04
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 356-357
- ISSN
- 0042-4900 (ISSN-L)
- 2042-7670
- OpenAlex
- W1971573838
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Veterinary Record (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Dermatological diseases and infestations
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Health Sciences › Veterinary › Small Animals › Helminth infection and control
- Keywords
- fipronil, flea control, Ctenocephalides felis, cats, spot-on formulation, flea infestation, ectoparasite control
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cat Diseases, Cats, Siphonaptera, Housing, Animal, Insecticides, Pyrazoles, Treatment Outcome
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