Sentences with phrase «of pyrethroid»

Regarding Ried Nelson's entry — the combination of pyrethroid insecticides and associated chemical adjuvants like piperonyl butoxide are not entirely harmless, especially to beneficial insects, children, aquatic organisms and cats.

Pyrethrin is a member of the pyrethroid family, and pyrethroids are considered to be neuropoisons.

The EPA has been reviewing the safety of pyrethroid - based flea products for some time.

Human descriptions of pyrethroid paresthesia vary from «tingling» to «pins and needles» to «burning» sensations in the skin at the site of pyrethroid contact.

We conclude that studies of pyrethroid efficacy should not discount mosquitoes that survive insecticide exposure with fewer than six legs, as they may still be capable of biting humans, reproducing, and contributing to malaria transmission.

Methodology / principal findings: Population genetic structure was assessed through microsatellite analysis, and the impact of insecticide pressure by genotyping two target - site mutations, Vgsc - 1014F of the voltage-gated sodium channel target of pyrethroid and DDT insecticides, and Ace1 - 119S of the acetylcholinesterase gene, target of carbamate and organophosphate insecticides.

We show that field - collected Ugandan Culex quinquefasciatus display CNV for the voltage-gated sodium channel gene (Vgsc), target - site of pyrethroid and organochlorine insecticides.

One result of pyrethroid exposure often seen in laboratory tests is mosquito leg loss, a condition that has thus far been assumed to equate to mortality, as females are not expected to blood feed.

Rapid selection of a pyrethroid metabolic enzyme CYP9K1 by operational malaria control activities

One possible reason is the growing use of a pyrethroid called cypermethrin, which both the SEPA and the Environment Agency believe is more toxic.

Neither the SEPA nor the Environment Agency, which covers England and Wales, has collated data on the number of cases of pyrethroid pollution.

«They don't tend to think of the suburban homes, whereas it turns out the suburban home was a constant source of pyrethroid toxicity.»

In the new study, 5,046 urine samples collected from U.S. adults and children between 1999 and 2002 were tested for five metabolites of pyrethroid insecticides.

California, Weston said, doesn't want to return to using organophosphates such as chlorpyrifos, which was banned from household use because of human health concerns, «but they want to control the use of pyrethroids to minimize the environmental effects we document.»

In addition to inhaling or absorbing pyrethroids that linger in households, people ingest traces of pyrethroids in their food, since the chemicals are used on some vegetable, fruit and grain crops.

In response to toxicity concerns raised by Weston's work, California's Department of Pesticide Regulation began reevaluating regulation of pyrethroids in 2006.

The state has requested additional data from manufacturers on the safety of pyrethroids and is analyzing at least 700 products used in households and on farms.

More likely there will be further regulations pertaining to the use of pyrethroids.»

But the adoption of pyrethroids by sheep farmers seems to be the most likely cause.

Study lead author Mojca Kristan from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the first time that effects of pyrethroids on the parasite have been observed in a malaria endemic setting, with wild - caught mosquitoes and parasites.

Application of pyrethroids just prior to conception meant an increased risk of 82 percent, and during the third trimester, the risk was 87 percent higher.

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Not exact matches

To evaluate the efficacy of indoor residual spraying against malaria, scientists place a piece of tape on the wall, pull it off, and then soak it in a chemical solution to see how much pyrethroid insecticide was applied.

South Africa went back to using DDT, an organochloride, after an epidemic of malaria transmitted by pyrethroid - resistant mosquitoes in 1999 and 2000.

The world still relies on the same class of insecticides, known as pyrethroids, as it did in 1977.

They were spraying brown locust nymphs (Locustana pardalina) with different amounts of deltamethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, to see how the death rate of poisoned insects was affected by the weather.

For the first time ever, Weston and his team documented pyrethroids in the outflow of sewage treatment plants, which was surprising.

About 70 percent of people in the United States have been exposed to pyrethroids, with children facing the highest exposure, according to a study published this month.

Some pyrethroids imitate the hormone estrogen and can increase levels of estrogen in breast cancer cells, and some are suspected carcinogens.

Pyrethroids are showing up not only in sediments, but also in the currents of California rivers, at levels toxic to insects and aquatic invertebrates that fish and other animals feed on.

Studies with lab animals have linked pyrethroid exposure to damage of the thyroid, liver and nervous system, as well as impairment of behavioral development, changes in the immune system and disruption of reproductive hormones, according to the 2006 EPA review.

Also, the EPA this year is reevaluating pyrethroids as part of its 2010 pesticide review.

But evidence is mounting that the switch to less - toxic pyrethroids has brought its own set of new ecological and human health risks.

«Pyrethroids are obviously a safer alternative to organophosphates, but just because they are safer doesn't mean they are safe,» said Dana Boyd Barr, a research professor of environmental health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

Traces of at least one pyrethroid metabolite were found in 75 percent of the people tested in 2001 - 2002, up from 66 percent in 1999 - 2000.

«Pyrethroids are an extremely important class of insecticidal compounds with major public health and agricultural uses,» Rex Runyon, a vice president at CropLife America, a trade group that represents pesticide companies, said in an email.

Bedbugs have become a big problem in U.S. hotels and homes over the past decade, in part because they are resistant to a widely used class of insecticides called pyrethroids.

Roger Cook, director of the National Office for Animal Health, a veterinary drugs industry group, agrees that the pesticides must be disposed of carefully: «Right from the start, pyrethroids have always been seen as particularly hazardous to the aquatic environment.»

But Prigg says that pyrethroids are so toxic that «if dipped sheep drip while grazing near streams, that can provide the few nanograms of pesticide per litre of water required to kill freshwater shrimps».

These nets have contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths due to malaria, but in recent years, there has been growing concern that mosquitoes are becoming resistant to the pyrethroid insecticides used on the nets, making them less effective.

Charles Wondji said: «We found a population of mosquitoes fully resistant to DDT (no mortality when they were treated with DDT) but also to pyrethroids.

When subsequent research showed that kdr alone was not operationally significant and activity of metabolic resistance genes appeared absent, pyrethroid IRS was reintroduced in 2012.

Pyrethroids, the main class of pesticides used against bedbugs today, targets sodium channels in bedbug cells, just like DDT.

The proof that this particular enzyme is also a marker for resistance to pyrethroids, gives us a further opportunity to monitor the rate of insecticide resistance and make evidence based decisions in line with national plans.»

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

Pyrethroid - treated bed nets are acutely neurotoxic to mosquitoes, inducing symptoms such as loss of coordination, paralysis, and violent spasms.

To investigate how some bedbugs were defending themselves, scientists compared the genes of 20 pyrethroid - resistant populations of the insects from around the country against a susceptible colony from Los Angeles, California.

The most prevalent pesticide (found in 25 % of samples) found on conventional peanuts is piperonyl butoxide, a pyrethroid synergist used to enhance the toxicity of other pesticides.

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Pyrethroids are synthetic derivatives of pyrethrins.