Personal protection measures to prevent human tick encounters from resulting in bites are
widely recommended as the first line of defense against health impacts associated with ticks …

Ticks are important human and animal parasites and vectors of many infectious disease
agents. Control of tick activity is an effective tool to reduce the risk of contracting tick …

The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (sl) Latreille (Acari: Ixodidae), is a
peridomestic, cosmopolitan parasite of dogs known to vector numerous pathogens of …

Factory-treated permethrin uniforms are the primary method used by the US Army to prevent
arthropod bites and transmission of arthropod-borne diseases. In this study previously worn …

European deer keds, Lipoptena cervi (Linnaeus, 1758), are hematophagous ectoparasitic
flies known to bite cervids and noncervids, including humans. To prevent deer keds from …

Essential oils show promise as natural alternatives to synthetic tick repellents, but few
studies have investigated their repellent efficacy in vivo or under field conditions. Here …

Permethrin-treated clothing is available as consumer products to prevent bites by tick and
insect pests. We used bioassays to examine the impact of wearing and washing/drying of …

Abstract Exotic ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), such as
Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky), Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford), and …

Viruses transmitted by mosquitoes threaten the health of millions of people worldwide. There
is an urgent need for new tools for personal protection to ensure that vulnerable individuals …

For more than 50 years DEET (N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide) has been considered the gold
standard of repellents. It is applied to the skin or clothing to deter mosquitoes and other …