Insecticide-Treated Window and Roof Screens Outperform Bed Nets in Malaria Prevention
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- The screens were treated with a combination of deltamethrin and piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a formulation designed to improve effectiveness against insecticide-resistant mosquito populations.During the 32-night study.
- INSECTICIDE-treated window and roof-eave screens could become a powerful new tool in the fight against malaria after a new study found they outperform aged insecticide-treated bed nets in preventing mosquitoes from.
- Newly installed screens killed considerably more mosquitoes than the year-old insecticide-treated bed nets, while older treated screens maintained levels of protection comparable to the bed nets.Researchers noted that.
- The findings, published in the journal BMC Public Health, a British peer reviewed periodical, suggest that insecticide-treated screening offers unbroken protection during early evening when many people are indoors but.