Do Topical Repellents Divert Mosquitoes within a Community? – Health Equity Implications of Topical Repellents as a Mosquito Bite Prevention Tool

Marta Ferreira Maia; Sangoro Peter Onyango; Max Thele; Emmanuel Titus Simfukwe; Elizabeth Louise Turner; Sarah Jane Moore

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084875

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Do Topical Repellents Divert Mosquitoes within a Community? – Health Equity Implications of Topical Repellents as a Mosquito Bite Prevention Tool

Marta Ferreira Maia ,

* E-mail: mmaia@ihi.or.tz

Affiliations Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, United Republic of Tanzania
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Sangoro Peter Onyango,

Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, United Republic of Tanzania, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department of Disease Control, London, England, United Kingdom
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Max Thele,

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, United Republic of Tanzania
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Emmanuel Titus Simfukwe,

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, United Republic of Tanzania
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Elizabeth Louise Turner,

Affiliations Duke University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke University, Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Sarah Jane Moore

Affiliations Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Thematic Group, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, United Republic of Tanzania
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Do Topical Repellents Divert Mosquitoes within a Community? – Health Equity Implications of Topical Repellents as a Mosquito Bite Prevention Tool

Marta Ferreira Maia,
Sangoro Peter Onyango,
Max Thele,
Emmanuel Titus Simfukwe,
Elizabeth Louise Turner,
Sarah Jane Moore

Published: December 20, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084875

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