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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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BioMed Central
2009
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| 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 |