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01-10-2012 | Poster presentation
Do topical repellents divert mosquitoes within a community?
Authors:
Marta Maia, Peter Sangoro, Max Thele, Elizabeth Turner, Sarah Moore
Published in:
Malaria Journal
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Repellents are compounds which interfere with the mosquito’s olfactory system hindering them to identify their hosts and succeeding in taking a blood-meal [
1]. However, repellents do not eliminate the host-seeking mosquitoes, they simply reduce human-vector contact. Consequently, there is a possibility that individuals, who do not use repellents, experience more bites than usual because mosquitoes are diverted from the repellent users. The objective of this study was to measure if diversion occurs from households that use repellents to those that don’t within a community with incomplete topical repellent coverage. …