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01-10-2012 | Poster presentation
Consistently high baseline estimates for the proportion of human exposure to rural African malaria vector populations that occurred indoors
Authors:
Bernadette Huho, Olivier Briët, Aklilu Seyoum, Chadwick Sikaala, Nabie Bayoh, John Gimnig, Fredros Okumu, Diadier Diallo, Salim Abdulla, Thomas Smith, Gerry Killeen
Published in:
Malaria Journal
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are highly effective options for controlling malaria transmission in Africa because the most important vectors, which are from the Anopheles gambiae complex and the An. funestus group, prefer biting humans who are indoors at night. It is feared that sustained large scale use of ITNs and IRS can cause these vectors to shift biting in place and time where ITNs and IRS are not effective. …