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Mosquito Repellent: A Novel Approach for Human Protection

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Molecular Identification of Mosquito Vectors and Their Management

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Mosquito is among the major important arthropod vectors that transmits diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, dengue fever, and arboviral encephalitis. These diseases pose severe threat to human and animal health causing significant mortality all over the world. Although most parts of the world are affected by such mosquito-borne diseases, the rate of mortality is greater in tropical and subtropical region. Minimizing the suffering of human beings arising out of mosquito vectors has become a difficult task as absolute prevention from mosquitoes is really a challenging job. However, the mosquito-borne diseases can be minimized by avoiding direct contact of human beings with mosquitoes. In the absence of ample effective vaccines, mosquito repellents emerge out as the best possible alternative in this regard. These repellents create a virtual barrier between human beings and mosquitoes; reduce the biting of mosquitoes, thus minimize the probability of various diseases. Amongst several existing natural and synthetic mosquito repellents in the market, the use of N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET) is the most common during last 60 years. Although the repellence activity of DEET is known for a quite long time, it suffers from numerous drawbacks, such as short-term protection from mosquitoes and has hazardous side effects like skin irritation. In recent times significant research has been carried out in this field and there is huge investment by several industries for developing preventives for mosquito-borne diseases. Since newer as well as safer technology is required for preventing genetically modified mosquitoes, absolute preventive measure for such mosquitoes is still a daunting task. A detailed knowledge about a repellent including the mechanism of prevention, its side effect will be helpful in this regard. Study of mosquitoes, their interaction with human beings, repellents and mode of action of these repellents is highly essential. It also requires research on mosquito, chemical repellents, a better knowledge of mosquito olfaction and behaviour, mosquito–host interactions, and the method of chemical interactions. During the last few decades, there was significant progress for developing structurally diverse mosquito repellent, both synthetic and natural, using safer and greener technologies. Development of new mosquito repellent has become the thrust area of research and has quite a lot of prospective to be explored in coming days.

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    Laxminarayan Sahoo

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    Satyanarayan Sahoo

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Singhamahapatra, A., Sahoo, L., Sahoo, S. (2020). Mosquito Repellent: A Novel Approach for Human Protection. In: Barik, T.K. (eds) Molecular Identification of Mosquito Vectors and Their Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9456-4_8

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