The Lancet Planetary Health, 2018 Summary: Background: Rapid population growth in Africa requires an urgent expansion and improvement of housing options. Improving housing presents a promising opportunity for malaria control by reducing indoor exposure to mosquitoes.
John C Rek, MBChB +11 more
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Forecasting the effectiveness of indoor residual spraying for reducing dengue burden
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Historically, mosquito control programs successfully helped contain malaria and yellow fever, but recent efforts have been unable to halt the spread of dengue, chikungunya, or Zika, all transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Using a dengue transmission model and results from indoor residual spraying (IRS) field experiments, we investigated how IRS-like ...
Thomas J. Hladish +6 more
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Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria in communities using insecticide-treated nets [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are used to prevent malaria transmission. Both interventions use insecticides to kill mosquitoes that bite and rest indoors. Adding IRS to ITNs may improve malaria control simply because two interventions can be better than one.
Pryce, Joseph +2 more
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Micro-encapsulated pirimiphos-methyl shows high insecticidal efficacy and long residual activity against pyrethroid-resistant malaria vectors in central Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]
, 2014 The wide-scale implementation of insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying (IRS) has contributed to a considerable decrease of malaria morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade.
Tchicaya, Emile S. +23 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Outdoor and early mosquito biters challenge the efficacy of bed-nets and indoor residual spraying on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Outdoor residual spraying is proposed for the control of exophilic mosquito species.
Victor Chaumeau +18 more
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"My Children and I Will no Longer Suffer from Malaria": A Qualitative Study of the Acceptance and Rejection of Indoor Residual Spraying to Prevent Malaria in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 The objective of this study was to identify attitudes and misconceptions related to acceptance or refusal of indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Tanzania for both the general population and among certain groups (e.g., farmers, fishermen, community leaders,
Michelle R Kaufman +11 more
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Controlling malaria with indoor residual spraying in spatially heterogenous environments
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2011 Indoor residual spraying-spraying insecticide inside houses to kill mosquitoes-has been one of the most effective methods of disease control ever devised, being responsible for the near-eradication of malaria from the world in the third quarter of the twentieth century and saving tens of millions of lives.
Mo'tassem Al-Arydah, Robert Smith?
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Determining Effective Spraying Periods to Control Malaria via Indoor Residual Spraying in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2008 Indoor residual spraying—spraying insecticide inside houses to kill mosquitoes—is an important method for controlling malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa. We propose a mathematical model for both regular and non-fixed spraying, using impulsive differential equations. First, we determine the stability properties of the nonimpulsive system.
Robert J. Smith? +1 more
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Reduced efficacy of insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying for malaria control in pyrethroid resistance area, Benin. [PDF]
, 2007 The pyrethroid knockdown resistance gene (kdr) has become widespread in Anopheles gambiae in West Africa. A trial to test the continuing efficacy of insecticide-treated nets (ITN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) was undertaken in experimental huts at ...
Mark Rowland +7 more
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Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2021 Background & objectives: Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health problem in many states of India. Uttar Pradesh state contributes 75% of the total cases reported.
Philip Samuel Paulraj +4 more
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