INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The first provisional patent application covering the use of these compounds
and analogues thereof for the control of parasites including head lice was filed in Australia and the USA and went PCT in July, 2004.
Ref.: WO 2005/007188 A1; Methods and compositions for
controlling ectoparasites
In April 2007, a second PCT and CIP were filed in the US and in the rest of the world protecting the use of certain compounds for control of invertebrate pests in a variety of settings
at a number of life cycle stages.
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Publications
• Young, A.R., Mancuso, N., Bowles, V.M., 1999. Biochemical aspects of egg hatch
in endo- and ectoparasites: potential for rational drug design. Int. J. Parasitol. 29, 861-7. Review.
• Young, A.R., Mancuso, N., Meeusen, E.N., Bowles, V.M., 2000. Characterisation of proteases involved in egg hatching of the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. Int. J. Parasitol. 30, 925-32.
• Bowles, V.M., Young, A.R., Barker, S.C. (2008) Metalloproteases and egg-hatching in Pediculus humanus, the body (clothes) louse of humans (Phthiraptera: Insecta). Parasitol 135(1):125-130.
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