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New and improved strategies for malaria control and prevention are urgently needed. As a contribution to an optimized personal protection strategy, a novel long-lasting insecticide and repellent-treated net (LLIRN) has been designed by binding combinations of permethrin plus N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), or insect repellent 3535 (IR3535), and etofenprox plus DEET, onto fibres of bed net fabric employing a new multi-layer polymer-coating technique. Protective repellent efficacy, toxicological effectiveness and residual activity of 12 LLIRN types have been evaluated by laboratory testing against adult Aedes aegypti. The novel multi-layer LLIRN design allowed simultaneous embedding at concentrations up to 5,930 mg/m2 for DEET, 3,408 mg/m2 for IR3535, 2,296 mg/m2 for permethrin and 2,349 mg/m2 for etofenprox, respectively. IR3535 layers prevented co-binding of additional pyrethroid-containing polymer layers, thus making pyrethroids plus DEET LLIRNs an ideal combination. All LLIRNs revealed synergistic insecticidal effects which, when measured against concentration controls of the isolated compounds, were significant in all LLIRN types designed. DEET in DEET plus permethrin LLIRNs significantly (p < 0.0001) reduced the concentration-dependent permethrin 100 % knockdown (KD) time from 55 to 75 %, the corresponding 100 % kill time (p < 0.0001) from 55 to 64 %. DEET in DEET plus etofenprox LLIRNs reduced the dose-specific 100 % knockdown (KD) time of etofenprox from 42 to 50 % (p = 0.004), the 100 % kill time from 25 to 38 % (p < 0.0001). Permethrin or etofenprox did not influence spatial repellency of DEET or IR3535 on LLIRNs. Vice versa, DEET and IR3535 increased spatial and excitatory repellency and reduced landing and probing frequency on LLIRNs resulting in strongly enhanced biting protection, even at low concentrations. One hundred percent biting and probing protection of stored LLIRNs was preserved for 83 weeks with the 5,930 mg/m2 DEET and 2,139 mg/m2 etofenprox LLIRN, for 72 weeks with the 5,002 mg/m2 DEET and 2,349 mg/m2 etofenprox LLIRN, for 63 weeks with the 3,590 mg/m2 DEET and 1,208 mg/m2 permethrin LLRN, and for 61 weeks with the 4,711 mg/m2 DEET and 702 mg/m2 etofenprox LLIRN. Because 100 % bite protection with up to 75 % quicker contact toxicity of pyrethroids were documented, synergistic toxicological and repellent effects of multi-layer polymer-coating LLIRNs may overcome LLIN-triggered selection pressure for development of new kdr- and metabolic pyrethroid resistances while simultaneously increasing protective efficacy also against kdr- and metabolic pyrethroid-resistant mosquitoes substantially due to the repellent-induced effects of LLIRNs thus indicating that this approach is a promising new candidate for future bed net, curtain, and window screen impregnation aiming at optimized prevention from mosquito-borne diseases.
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The authors thank Mr. Jacques Casteur, UTEXBEL, Ronse, Belgium for producing and providing impregnated netting material as well as Mrs. Anke Crecelius, Mr. Bernd Bocklet, Mr. Simon Leineweber and Mr. Sascha Franke for technical laboratory support. We also are grateful to Dr. Jerrold Scharninghausen for kindly reviewing and commenting on this manuscript. This manuscript represents, in part, the thesis of Mr. Oliver Nehring.
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Faulde, M.K., Nehring, O. Synergistic insecticidal and repellent effects of combined pyrethroid and repellent-impregnated bed nets using a novel long-lasting polymer-coating multi-layer technique. Parasitol Res 111, 755–765 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-012-2896-8
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