Permethrin, in the form of a topical cream, is being increasingly used for community-based programs to control endemic scabies. The development of resistance has reduced the use of pyrethroids for the control of many arthropods of economic and health importance. The best recognized form of pyrethroid resistance, known as knockdown resistance or kdr, has been linked to specific mutations in the ...

Scabies is a contagious skin infestation caused by parasite. In its usual, common form scabies passed on through long-time close physical contact. Though rarely so, infestation, of the profuse and hyperkeratotic form, can also be shared clothes, bed or bathroom linen. causative agent female mite sarcoptes scabiei, called scab mites, small-size parasite, less than half millimeter in length, larg...

Abstract Some pathogens sustain transmission in multiple different host species, but how this epidemiologically important feat is achieved remains enigmatic. Sarcoptes scabiei among the most generalist and successful of mammalian parasites. We synthesize pathogen traits that mediate sustained present cases illustrating three mechanisms (direct, indirect, combined). The explain success S. includ...

In veterinary medicine, natural products provide an alternative to chemical agents for mite management. the present study, acaricidal efficacy of Urtica fissa leaf ethyl acetate extract against Sarcoptes scabiei mites was examined. The composition determined using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. found be extremely toxic at a concentration 100 mg/ml (m/v), killin...