Remote Effect of Insecticide-Treated Nets and the Personal Protection against Malaria Mosquito Bites.

ABSTRACT: Experimental huts are part of the WHO process for testing and evaluation of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) in semi-field conditions. Experimental Hut Trials (EHTs) mostly focus on two main indicators (i.e., mortality and blood feeding reduction) that serve as efficacy criteria to obtain WHO interim recommendation. However, several other outputs that rely on counts of vectors collected in the huts are neglected although they can give useful information about vectors' behavior and personal protection provided by ITNs. In particular, EHTs allow to measure the deterrent effect and personal protection of ITNs. To provide a better assessment of ITNs efficacy, we performed a retrospective analysis of the deterrence and the personal protection against malaria transmission for 12 unwashed and 13 wa

SUBMITTER: Moiroux N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5271322 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature