Microencapsulation for improved mosquitoes' repellent efficacy of cotton fabrics
Date
2020-04-01Abstract
In recent years, mosquitoes that can transfer viruses causing vector-borne diseases,
such as dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika and West Nile virus have dramatically increased and
reached Europe. In 2018, a higher number of 1503 human cases were reported in the EU/EEA
and EU neighbouring countries. The current research was involved in the development of
mosquito repellent cotton fabrics with natural essential oils and further improvement of
mosquitoes repellent efficacy by microencapsulation of repellents on cotton Fabrics. The
repellents efficacy for Anopheles spp. is calculated by using the results of WHO modified test
method CTD/WHO PES/IC/96.1. Mosquito-repellency of the treated cotton fabrics against
Aedes aegypti mosquito species were tested by using Y-tube Olfactometer. SEM images of
treated cotton fabrics were also represented in this paper.
Description
open access article
Citation : Grancaric, A.M., Laird, K., Botteri, L., Shen, J. and Laatikainen, K. (2020) Microencapsulation for improved mosquitoes' repellent efficacy of cotton fabrics. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 827(1).
URI
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/827/1/012056https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19800
Research Institute : Leicester Institute for Pharmaceutical Innovation - From Molecules to Practice (LIPI)
Peer Reviewed : Yes
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