Benefit of Insecticide-Treated Nets, Curtains and Screening on Vector Borne Diseases, Excluding Malaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wilson, Anne L ^a   Dhiman, Ramesh C ^b   Kitron, Uriel ^c   Scott, Thomas W ^d,e   van den Berg, Henk ^f   Lindsay, Steven W ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED NET; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE TREATED CURTAIN; INSECTICIDE TREATED HOUSE SCREENING; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TROPICAL DISEASE; VECTOR BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITE VECTOR; PROCEDURES;

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; DENGUE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL;

EID: 84920511953     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003228     Document Type: Article

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