About the Authors

Sheila B. Ogoma

ogomabarasa33@gmail.com

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Coordination Office, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, US National Research Council, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Arnold S. Mmando

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Coordination Office, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Johnson K. Swai

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Coordination Office, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Sebastian Horstmann

Affiliation Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft, Monheim, Germany

David Malone

Affiliation Innovative Vector Control Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Gerry F. Killeen

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Coordination Office, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Vector Biology Department, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Sebastian Horstmann is an employee of Bayer CropScience. Bayer CropScience are a commercial producer of transfluthrin and hold a patent relating to its applications for control of mosquitoes which are resistant to other non-fluoronated pyrethroid insecticides. Bayer CropScience had no role in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GFK SBO. Data curation: GFK. Formal analysis: GFK. Funding acquisition: GFK. Investigation: SBO ASM JKS SH GFK. Methodology: GFK SBO. Project administration: GFK. Resources: SH GFK. Software: GFK. Supervision: GFK. Validation: SBO SH GFK. Visualization: SBO GFK. Writing – original draft: SBO GFK. Writing – review & editing: SBO ASM JKS SH DM GFK.