Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., s1-31(5), 1951, pp. 583-592
Copyright © 1951 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Results Obtained in Testing Molluscacides in Field Plots Containing Oncomelania Nosophora, an Intermediate Host of Schistosoma Japonicum
D. B. McMullen1,
S. Komiyama2,
N. Ishii3,
T. Endo-Itabashi4 AND
Y. Mitoma3
- 1. Out of 59 chemicals and mixtures tested in the laboratory on O. nosophora, 26 were selected for tests in field plots.
- 2. Six of these gave encouraging results. They included: calcium cyanamide, sodium dinitro-o-cresol, dinitro-o-cyclohexylphenol, its dicyclohexylamine salt, pentachlorophenol, and sodium pentachlorophenate.
1 406th Medical General Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; and the University of Oklahoma Medical School.
2 Yamanashi Health Department.
3 National Institute of Health of Japan.
4 406th Medical General Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.
Copyright © 1951 by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.