Limitation of using synthetic human odours to test mosquito repellents

BACKGROUND: Gold-standard tests of mosquito repellents involve exposing human volunteers to host-seeking mosquitoes, to assess the protective efficacy of the repellents. These techniques are not exposure-free and cannot be performed prior to toxicological evaluation. It is postulated that synthetic...

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Autores principales: Okumu, Fredros O, Titus, Emmanuel, Mbeyela, Edgar, Killeen, Gerry F, Moore, Sarah J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19583848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-150

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19583848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-150

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