Mosquito repellents
Mosquito repellents for malaria prevention
... bites, mosquito repellents may be suitable for people who have a high occupational risk of contracting malaria, such as: those working at night par- ticularly in mining; soldiers; people in close contact ...
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Study of Citronella leaf based herbal mosquito repellents using natural binders
... oil-based repellents tend to give short-lasting protection for less than two ...of mosquito repellents by supplementing it with natural fillers and binders have been devised ...
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Arm in cage testing of natural human derived mosquito repellents
... Background: Individual human subjects are differentially attractive to mosquitoes and other biting insects. Previous investigations have demonstrated that this can be attributed partly to enhanced production of natural ...
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Limitation of using synthetic human odours to test mosquito repellents
... sources. Mosquito repellents are normally evaluated on the basis of several different parameters including but not limited to the relative numbers of landing and biting mosquitoes, the duration of ...
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Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection
... other mosquito-borne diseases is mosquito control, which aims to reduce human-mosquito ...(eg mosquito repellents formulated as pills, coils, ointments, lotions, and sprays; and in- ...
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Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection
... by mosquito bites from infected female ...preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection, including repellents, and these approaches will be considered by those living in affected areas and by ...
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The use of mosquito repellents at three sites in India with declining malaria transmission: surveys in the community and clinic
... against mosquito bites may result in prevention of these diseases in addition to reducing mosquito annoyance and ...additional mosquito repellents providing personal protection; these include ...
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Assuring access to topical mosquito repellents within an intensive distribution scheme: a case study in a remote province of Cambodia
... (median 2012 = 20 %, median 2013 = 88.9 %). Consumption rate tripled over the 2-year study period (median 2012 = 20 %, median 2013 = 57.89 %). Contact rates were found to associate with district, commune and knowing the ...
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Evaluation of selected South African ethnomedicinal plants as mosquito repellents against the Anopheles arabiensis mosquito in a rodent model
... as mosquito repel- lents, or to repel or kill other ...insect repellents and insecticides (both larva- and adulticides), but to rather consider a pool of plants with anti- insecticidal ...and/or ...
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A REVIEW ON: MOSQUITO REPELLENT METHODS
... of mosquito borne ...like mosquito repellent used to combat mosquitoes are ...for mosquito control have varying degrees of ...Insect repellents work by masking human scent; a number of natural ...
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Plant based insect repellents: a review of their efficacy, development and testing
... insect repellents throughout the globe (Table ...as repellents are also used for food flavouring or in the perfume industry, which may explain the association with these oils as safer natural alternatives ...
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Ethnobotanical study of some of mosquito repellent plants in north eastern Tanzania
... The surveys were taken from January to March 2006, at Lower Moshi villages (37°20' E, 3°21' S; 750 M above sea level), located 19 km South of Moshi town, on the foot slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The area is characterized ...
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Repellence of essential oil of nigella sativa l. seeds against anopheles Gambiae and identification of the active blend
... with mosquito repellents may be helpful in controlling mosquito populations through ‘push and pull ...mechanism’. Repellents can be used as barrier in mosquito prone area, thus pushing ...
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Evaluation of Repellency Effect of Essential Oils of Satureja khuzestanica (Carvacrol), Myrtus communis (Myrtle), Lavendula officinalis and Salvia sclarea using Standard WHO Repellency Tests.
... of mosquito repellents for human skin were used (WHO ...Traditional repellents (DEET, 50% N, N-diethyl-3-methyl benzamide) and 33% N, N-diethyl-3-methyl benzamide and negative control (pure ethanol, ...
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Ethnobotanical survey of plants used as repellents against housefly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) in Budondo Subcounty, Jinja District, Uganda
... Burning of both fresh or dry leaves and stems to pro- duce in-house smoke to repel the flies was the most favored mode of administration of these plants aligning with the claim of Pålsson and Jaenson [29] in Guinea ...
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The mosquito holobiont: fresh insight into mosquito-microbiota interactions
... in mosquito midgut colonization by Esp_Z bac- teria ...increases mosquito immune gene ...Anopheles mosquito midgut is able to markedly decrease the survival of these mosquitoes as well as the ...
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Determinants of compliance with anti vectorial protective measures among non immune travellers during missions to tropical Africa
... The prevalence of “correct” compliance with wearing long clothing and using IIBNs was higher in countries where the incidence rate of clinical malaria was known to be higher (i.e., from 7.5 and 9.0 clinical malaria ...
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Transmission blocking strategies: the roadmap from laboratory bench to the community
... for mosquito stages) [134, 135], large-scale production of protein antigens is doable using various recent technologies, either syn- thetic or recombinant, but correct folding, a prerequisite for achieving highly ...
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Does mosquito mass rearing produce an inferior mosquito?
... In this study, males reared under mass and small rearing conditions were compared, and mass production condi- tions (high population density, close space, tilting, larvae and pupae separation) were found not to affect ...
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Spatial repellents: from discovery and development to evidence based validation
... The case for developing a SRCPD is strengthened by sev- eral research programmes that have, and continue, to gen- erate evidence of the benefits of sub-lethal approaches for disease control. Studies evaluating physical ...
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