The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its recommendation for malaria-preventing mosquito nets based on new research from the University of Adelaide.
Dr Timothy Barker, of the JBI Adelaide GRADE Centre, located at the University of Adelaide, led a team which proved the effectiveness of a combination of insecticides when used to treat malaria-preventing mosquito nets.
"Given this, the WHO was interested in a new type of bed net that had been recently investigated in some clinical trials that might combat this issue. "Chlorfenapyr acts as a synergist to the pyrethroid insecticide by disrupting the mosquito's ability to produce energy. This increases the 'killing effect' of the net with no additional harm to the person sleeping under it," Dr Barker explained.
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