Insecticidal Bed Nets and Filariasis Transmission in Papua New Guinea

Reimer, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-4981, Thomsen, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-6430, Tisch, Daniel, Henry-Halldin, Cara, Zimmerman, Peter, Baea, Manasseh, Dagoro, Henry, Susapu, Melinda, Hetzel, Manuel, Bockarie, Moses, Michael, Edwin, Siba, Peter and Kazura, James (2013) 'Insecticidal Bed Nets and Filariasis Transmission in Papua New Guinea'. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 369, pp. 745-753.

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Abstract

Global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis are based on the annual mass administration of antifilarial drugs to reduce the microfilaria reservoir available to the mosquito vector. Insecticide-treated bed nets are being widely used in areas in which filariasis and malaria are coendemic.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QX Parasitology > Helminths. Annelida > QX 301 Filarioidea QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 510 Mosquitoes QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 515 Anopheles WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 240 Disinfection. Disinfestation. Pesticides (including diseases caused by) WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 880 Filariasis and related conditions (General)
Faculty: Department:	Biological Sciences > Vector Biology Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1207594
Depositing User:	Samantha Sheldrake
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2013 14:26
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2019 08:40
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/3464

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