ArticleParasites & vectors2021
Evaluating putative repellent 'push' and attractive 'pull' components for manipulating the odour orientation of host-seeking malaria vectors in the peri-domestic space.
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- Volatile pyrethroid spatial repellents for preventing mosquito bites: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EBioMedicine · 2025Pooled it
- A randomized, double-blind placebo-control study assessing the protective efficacy of an odour-based 'push-pull' malaria vector control strategy in reducing human-vector contact.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
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- Visual and thermal stimuli modulate mosquito-host contact with implications for improving malaria vector control tools.iScience · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the solar-powered Silver Bullet 2.1 (Lumin 8) light trap for sampling malaria vectors in western Kenya.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- The MTego trap: a potential tool for monitoring malaria and arbovirus vectors.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Comparison of Trap and Equine Attraction to Mosquitoes.Insects · 2023Article
- Human landing catches provide a useful measure of protective efficacy for the evaluation of volatile pyrethroid spatial repellents.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Less is more: repellent-treated fabric strips as a substitute for full screening of open eave gaps for indoor and outdoor protection from malaria mosquito bites.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Grass-like plants release general volatile cues attractive for gravid Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquitoes.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Insecticide-treated eave ribbons for malaria vector control in low-income communities.Malaria journal · 2021Review
- To Kill or to Repel Mosquitoes? Exploring Two Strategies for Protecting Humans and Reducing Vector-Borne Disease Risks by Using Pyrethroids as Spatial Repellents.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Semi-field evaluation of the exposure-free mosquito electrocuting trap and BG-Sentinel trap as an alternative to the human landing catch for measuring the efficacy of transfluthrin emanators against Aedes aegypti.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Predicting the impact of outdoor vector control interventions on malaria transmission intensity from semi-field studies.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundNovel malaria vector control approaches aim to combine tools for maximum protection. This study aimed to evaluate novel and re-evaluate existing putative repellent 'push' and attractive 'pull' components for manipulating the odour orientation of malaria vectors in the peri-domestic space.
methodsAnopheles arabiensis outdoor human landing catches and trap comparisons were implemented in large semi-field systems to (i) test the efficacy of Citriodiol
resultsMicroencapsulated Citriodiol
conclusionThis step-by-step evaluation of the selected 'push' and 'pull' components led to a better understanding of their ability to affect host-seeking behaviours of the malaria vector An. arabiensis in the peri-domestic space and helps to gauge the impact such tools would have when used in the field for monitoring or control.
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