C H A P T E R 3

Overview of Personal

Protection Measures

Through the Innovative Use

of Repellent-Textiles as

Avant-Garde Disease

Control Via Arthropods

Nano-Tech-Repellents

Chinazom Enukoha

Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Sahar Hassandoust

Italian Mosquito Control Association, Alessandria, Italy

Asghar Talbalaghi*

Italian Mosquito Control Association, Alessandria, Italy

* corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected]

CONTENTS

3.1

Introduction ...............................................................

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3.2

Innovative Vector control ..................................................

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3.3

Insect Repellent Mode of Action ...........................................

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3.4

Textile and Personal Protection ............................................

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3.5

Impregnation of Textile ....................................................

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3.6

Evaluation of Repellents ...................................................

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3.7

Measuring the entomological performance of

textiles ...........

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3.7.1

Open field, Italian Mosquito Control Association Alessandria Italy,

2019 ...............................................................

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3.7.2

Laboratory test at Anastasia Mosquito Control District St.

Augustine, Florida, USA 2020 ......................................

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DOI: 10.1201/9781003035992-3

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