Sentence examples for flea infestations from inspiring English sources

In environmental challenge studies, which were designed to evaluate the efficacy of selamectin in the treatment and control of established flea infestations, dogs and cats were each infested with 100 fleas on days −28 and −21 and placed in carpeted rooms in order to establish high levels of active flea infestation prior to day 0. Treatments were administered monthly for 3 months.

The efficacy of spinosad against adult fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) on cats was evaluated in two separate controlled, blinded studies one to determine flea knockdown and speed of flea kill (SOFK) on experimentally infested cats, another to assess the ability of spinosad to prevent flea infestations in a simulated home environment (SHE) study design.

Liz Phoenix, wife of a Royal Marine, told the MPs: We are still seeing people with mouldy and damp homes, rat infestations … Families are moving into properties that are disgustingly filthy – when I say filthy, I mean flea infestations and dog hairs on carpets.

Flea infestations were performed weekly with 100 adult unfed C. felis on each dog from Days 42 to 84.

In prevention of environmental infestation studies, dogs and cats were placed in environments capable of supporting flea infestations and given monthly treatments for 2 months, commencing on day 0. Animals were infested with 100 fleas on days 1 and 7, and flea comb counts were performed on days 29, 44, and 60.

The capability of spinosad to quickly kill adult fleas, and to greatly reduce egg production following challenge with high numbers of adult fleas is important in breaking the flea life cycle and preventing the introduction and establishment of new flea infestations in the household.

And he said three to four people died every day from malaria, flea infestation, lack of food, suffocation or sheer heat.

There was faeces, both animal and human, on the floor, the dismembered corpse of a rabbit on the kitchen table, a flea infestation and a layer of filth on every surface.

The dog was suffering the dire effects of a severe household flea infestation, treated with strong chemicals, that left him in need of a $700 transfusion the family could not afford.

Some will miss him like they'd miss a flea infestation, but others will fondly recall the days when they had someone to really hate in the Premier League, a man to really get their annoyance juices flowing.

Thisbe, 5, was one of four dogs rescued from a suburban home in San Mateo — two 15-year-old dogs, Thisbe's parents, were blind, and her brother, Pillsbury, 8, had a severe flea infestation and mouth rot.