Barrier bednets target malaria vectors and expand the range of usable insecticides
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12023
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41564-019-0607-2
- Title of journal
- Nature Microbiology
- Article number
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- First page
- 40
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2058-5276
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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14
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Published in Nature Microbiology (IF 15.5), reports a new ‘barrier’ bednet design to mitigate malaria transmission, assays indicate greater than 20% increase in killing effect on the primary malaria mosquito compared to conventional bednets. Identified by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as "significant" and supported via grant OPP1200155, $4m, to optimise the barrier design and insecticide against both susceptible and insecticide-resistant mosquito strains. Reported in various news outlets (including ‘Bioengineer’, https://bioengineer.org/malaria-deaths-could-be-reduced-thanks-to-warwick-engineers/ and Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2019-12-malaria-deaths-warwick.html), and in the top 2% of all articles tracked by Altmetric (>13M) in terms of media attention (Attention Score: 139).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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