Durability assessment results suggest a serviceable life of two, rather than three, years for the current long-lasting insecticidal (mosquito) net (LLIN) intervention in Benin

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gnanguenon, Virgile ^a,b   Azondekon, Roseric ^a,c   Oke Agbo, Frederic ^a   Beach, Raymond ^d   Akogbeto, Martin ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE COTONOU CREC   (Benin)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Durability; Fabric integrity; LLIN intervention serviceable life; Long lasting Insecticidal Net (LLIN); Survivorship

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; BED NET; BENIN; DEVICE FAILURE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ANIMALS; BENIN; CULICIDAE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893651095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-69     Document Type: Article

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