Impregnating hessian strips with the volatile pyrethroid transfluthrin prevents outdoor exposure to vectors of malaria and lymphatic filariasis in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Govella, Nicodem J ^a   Ogoma, Sheila B ^a,b   Paliga, John ^a   Chaki, Prosper P ^a   Killeen, Gerry ^a,c  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b US Army Medical Research Unit Kenya   (Kenya)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversion; Filariasis; Hessian strip; Malaria; Mosquitoes; Outdoor transmission; Repellent; Transfluthrin; Vector control

Indexed keywords

PYRETHROID; PYRETHROID TRANSFLUTHRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; FLUOROBENZENE; INSECTICIDE; TRANSFLUTHRIN;

ADULT; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MERUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; TANZANIA; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULEX; CYCLOPROPANES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROBENZENES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PYRETHRINS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84931268077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0937-8     Document Type: Article

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