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A popular Indian clove-based mosquito repellent is less effective against Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti than DEET

Insect repellents are widely used as the first line of defense against mosquito bites and transmission of disease-causing agents. However, the cost of daily applications of even the most affordable and the gold standard of insect repellents, DEET, is still high for low-income populations where repel...

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Autores principales: Tan, Kaiming, Faierstein, Gabriel B., Xu, Pingxi, Barbosa, Rosângela M. R., Buss, Garrison K., Leal, Walter S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31689339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224810