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Salmon - Sea Lice
Overview |Dosage/Administration|Efficacy|DescriptionTarget Species: Salmonids: including Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, brown trout, brook trout and rainbow trout.
Key Benefits
- High level efficacy: SLICE* rapidly killed all parasitic stages (motile and non-motile) of sea lice.
- Duration of efficacy: SLICE* killed all stages of sea lice including gravid adult females for up to 10 weeks.
- Efficacy unaffected by temperature: SLICE* was effective under a wide range of environmental conditions, i.e. water temperatures of 5o-15oC in both freshwater and seawater.
- Well tolerated: SLICE* was well tolerated at more than 3x the dose rate with no mortality or significant reduction in feeding associated with treatment.
- Well tolerated and effective: when administered to smolts prior to transfer to sea.
Label Indications: For the treatment and prevention of lice infestations in salmonids caused by Lepeophtheirus salmonis,
Caligus elongatus, Caligus teres and Caligus rogercressyi.
| Common name |
Fish Species |
Lice species |
| Atlantic salmon |
Salmo salar |
L. salmonis, Caligus spp. |
| Rainbow trout |
Oncorhynchus mykiss |
L. salmonis, Caligus spp. |
| Brown or sea trout |
Salmo trutta |
L. salmonis, Caligus spp. |
| Brook trout |
Salvelinus fontinalis |
Salmincola edwardsii |
SLICE* Clinical Trials:
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