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and head, to prevent the mosquito to bite them and to avoid a possible mosquito landing

interference with the treated parts.

Each of the people will have a mechanical aspirator equipped with a big tube and a

fully charged battery to work properly during the collection of the mosquitos that land in

the t-shirt. This procedure will be realized exactly in the same 10 minutes’ time for all the

persons involved in the study. If there would be two different concentration of repellent

in the t-shirts, we will test them in 10 minutes’ interval for each of them, independently.

After all the collection period of 10 minutes, all the tubes would be coded with the name

of the location, date, time, name of the person, t-shirt code, repellent concentration 1 and

2, without wash, after wash nr. 1, wash nr. 2, wash nr. 3, wash nr. 4; and if the repellency

efficacy will still be effective after the 4th wash, we will still continue to wash them and

test them till no repellent effect will be observed. We will mark the t-shirts with the code or

name of each person, in order that the same shirt to be used from the same person during

all the period of the study.

Mosquitos collected and labels tubes would be later identified in the Laboratory of

Medical Entomology up to species level, and noted at the total data recorded. The data

about the repellent and the impregnation procedure will be provided from the person in

charge for this procedure. The detailed data of this will be later noted and provided during

the field study and at the end of the research for a complete data set of it. The textile of the

t-shirts would be sent to the Textiles Department in the Polytechnic University of Tirana

for all probable and needed performance and measurements features before starting the test

in the field. As well, washing procedure will be realized in the Textiles Department in the

Polytechnic University of Tirana. The data will be collected and noted in excel sheet to be

later analyzed and find the efficacy of the repellent treated textiles or t-shirts.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This short field trial was kindly supported by the Institute of Public Health Albania in

the frame of the National Program of the Mosquito Control in the Urban and Coastal

Areas of the Country. This chapter is partly based on work performed within the frame-

work of IMAAC (https://imaac.eu/) related to COST Action CA16227 (Investiga-

tion & Mathematical Analysis of Avant-garde Disease Control via Mosquito Nano-Tech-

Repellents, https://cost.eu/actions/CA16227/), supported by COST Asso-

ciation (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).