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Do Topical Repellents Divert Mosquitoes within a Community? – Health Equity Implications of Topical Repellents as a Mosquito Bite Prevention Tool
OBJECTIVES: Repellents do not kill mosquitoes - they simply reduce human-vector contact. Thus it is possible that individuals who do not use repellents but dwell close to repellent users experience more bites than otherwise. The objective of this study was to measure if diversion occurs from househo...
Autores principales: | Maia, Marta Ferreira, Onyango, Sangoro Peter, Thele, Max, Simfukwe, Emmanuel Titus, Turner, Elizabeth Louise, Moore, Sarah Jane |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084875 |
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