A new strategy for treating nets. Part 2: Users' perceptions of efficacy and washing practices and their implications for insecticide dosage

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-174

  Miller, J E ^a   Jones, Caroline O H ^a   Ndunguru, S ^a   Curtis, V ^a   Lines, J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insecticide; Malaria; Mosquito nets; Pyrethroid; Tanzania; User perceptions

Indexed keywords

PYRETHROID;

IMPREGNATED BEDNET; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PERCEPTION; PYRETHROID;

ARTICLE; BED NET; DOSE RESPONSE; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA CONTROL; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEDDING AND LINENS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LAUNDERING; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PYRETHRINS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TANZANIA;

INSECTA;

EID: 0032945703     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.43378.x     Document Type: Article

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