Bio-efficacy and wash-fastness of a lambda-cyhalothrin long-lasting insecticide treatment kit (ICON® Maxx) against mosquitoes on various polymer materials

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Patrick K. Tungu, Wema S. Sudi, Harparkash Kaur, Stephen M. Magesa, Mark Rowland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2021
• Subjects: Insecticide-treatment kit; Anopheles gambiae; Malaria; Lambda-cyhalothrin; Polyester; Polyethylene; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Lambda
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03909-6; https://doaj.org/article/7acf6f600036497c821c0e9193371c18

Abstract Background Long-lasting efficacy of insecticide-treated nets is a balance between adhesion, retention and migration of insecticide to the surface of netting fibres. ICON® Maxx is a twin-sachet ‘home-treatment kit’ of pyrethroid plus binding agent, recommended by the World Health Organizatio...