Abstract

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.

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Title
Microencapsulation for improved mosquitoes’ repellent efficacy of cotton fabrics
Author
Grancaric, A M 1 ; Laird, K 2 ; Botteri, L 1 ; Shen, J 3 ; Laatikainen, K 4 

 Department of Textile Chemistry and Ecology, Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Prilaz baruna Filipovića 28a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia 
 Infectious Disease Research Group, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; Textile Engineering and Materials Research Group, School of Design, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK 
 Textile Engineering and Materials Research Group, School of Design, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK 
 Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Lappeenranta, Finland 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Apr 2020
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2562386512
Copyright
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