Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria in communities using insecticide‐treated nets

Choi, Leslie, Pryce, Joseph and Garner, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-6941 (2019) 'Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria in communities using insecticide‐treated nets'. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Vol 5, CD012688.

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Abstract

Background
Insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are used to control malaria vectors. Both strategies use insecticides to kill mosquitoes that bite and rest indoors. For ITNs, the World Health Organization (WHO) only recommended pyrethroids until 2018, but mosquito vectors are becoming resistant to this insecticide. For IRS, a range of insecticides are recommended. Adding IRS to ITNs may improve control, simply because two interventions may be better than one; it may improve malaria control where ITNs are failing due to pyrethroid resistance; and it may slow the emergence and spread of pyrethroid resistance.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 510 Mosquitoes QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 600 Insect control. Tick control WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 240 Disinfection. Disinfestation. Pesticides (including diseases caused by) WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012688.pub2
Depositing User:	Stacy Murtagh
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2019 14:37
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2019 10:16
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/10943

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