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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Unwin, H Juliette T
• Sherrard-Smith, Ellie
• Churcher, Thomas S
• Ghani, Azra C

Titel

Quantifying the direct and indirect protection provided by insecticide treated bed nets against malaria

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2023-02, Vol.14 (1), p.676-12, Article 676

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) provide both direct and indirect protection against malaria. As pyrethroid resistance evolves in mosquito vectors, it will be useful to understand how the specific benefits LLINs afford individuals and communities may be affected. Here we use modelling to show that there is no minimum LLIN usage needed for users and non-users to benefit from community protection. Modelling results also indicate that pyrethroid resistance in local mosquitoes will likely diminish the direct and indirect benefits from insecticides, leaving the barrier effects intact, but LLINs are still expected to provide enhanced benefit over untreated nets even at high levels of pyrethroid resistance.