Insecticidal roof barriers mounted on untreated bed nets can be as effective against Anopheles gambiae as regular insecticide-treated bed nets
Anthony J. Abbott, Agnes Matope, Jeff Jones, Vitaly Voloshin, Catherine E. Towers, David Towers, Philip J. McCall · 2023
Read Insecticidal roof barriers mounted on untreated bed nets can be as effective against Anopheles gambiae as regular insecticide-treated bed nets by Anthony J. Abbott, Agnes Matope, Jeff Jones, Vitaly Voloshin, Catherine E. Towers, David Towers, Philip J. McCall (2023) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-10716170.txt.
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Anthony Abbott and six co-authors test a bed net upgrade: an insecticide panel fitted over the roof of a plain net. Their study was published in twenty twenty-three. Mosquitoes are most active above the net roof, so a treated barrier there might do the work of a fully treated net with less insecticide.
The team paired treated and untreated nets with and without roof barriers, then exposed them to malaria mosquitoes, both resistant and susceptible to the poison. Video tracked the flight paths. One longitudinal barrier design matched or beat the reference treated net. Adding that barrier to a plain net raised its kill to the reference level. The design could cut insecticide per net and widen chemical choice.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anthony J. Abbott, Agnes Matope, Jeff Jones, Vitaly Voloshin, Catherine E. Towers, David Towers, Philip J. McCall |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |