Field evaluation of Veeralin, an alpha-cypermethrin + PBO long-lasting insecticidal net, against natural populations of Anopheles funestus in experimental huts in Muheza, Tanzania

Assessing the variability in experimental hut trials evaluating insecticide-treated nets against malaria vectors

“…Full data were available from 15 different EHTs carried out across sub-Saharan Africa (Supplementary file 1: Table S1 ) ( Ngufor et al., 2014 , 2017 , 2022 ; N’Guessan et al., 2016 ; WHOPES, 2016 ; Toé et al., 2018 ; Tungu et al., 2021 ). There is wide variation in the numbers of mosquitoes entering each hut for studies, with the mean number of mosquitoes per hut varying from 1.6 to 32.5 per night (the median value across the studies was 9.1).…”

A descriptive review of next-generation insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria control

“…funestus and An. arabiensis showed increased blood-feeding rates with PBO nets compared to pITNs (Mahande et al, 2018;Tungu et al, 2021a;Tungu et al, 2021b;Kibondo et al, 2022).…”

“…funestus and Veeralin in An. funestus in Tanzania (Kweka et al, 2017;Tungu et al, 2021b). Similarly, a single study reported no differences in exophily in one trial and increased exophily in a second trial following IG2 exposure at the same site with An.…”

“…Less data are available about Anopheline deterrence rates in Eastern Africa. Data from Tanzania concluded that PermaNet 3.0 (Kweka et al, 2017;Tungu et al, 2021b) and Veeralin (Tungu et al, 2021b) increased deterrence compared to pITNs. Contrastingly, IG2 in Tanzania showed no increase in deterrence with An.…”