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- noun An
organophosphate larvicide used especially to treat water infested with disease-carryingfleas .
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* Suitable insecticidal dusts for body louse control are permethrin (0.5%), temephos (2%), propoxur (1%) and carbaryl (5%).
Chapter 4 1997
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