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Field trials of second-generation anticoagulants against difenacoum-resistant Norway rat populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

J. H. Greaves ,
D. S. Shepherd  and
R. Quy
J. H. Greaves
Affiliation:
Tolworth Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surrey KT6 7NF
D. S. Shepherd
Affiliation:
Tolworth Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surrey KT6 7NF
R. Quy
Affiliation:
Tolworth Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surrey KT6 7NF
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Trials of rodenticidal baits containing 50 p.p.m. difenacoum, 50 p.p.m. bromadiolone or 20 p.p.m. brodifacoum were carried out on farmsteads against populations of Rattus norvegicus containing difenacoum-resistant individuals. Six difenacoum treatments failed in 14–42 days of baiting. Two treatments with bromadiolone succeeded in 23 and 33 days, but four further treatments lasting 35–56 days failed to eradicate the populations. Brodifacoum gave virtually complete control of six populations in 21–73 days and of the ten residual populations left behind by the other two compounds, after baiting for a further 11–85 days. The performance of both bromadiolone and brodifacoum was well below that reported by previous investigators, indicating the possibility of low-grade resistance to these compounds in the difenacoum-resistant strain.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , October 1982 , pp. 295 - 301
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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