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This article is part of the supplement: Natural products for the control of malaria

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Plant-based insect repellents: a review of their efficacy, development and testing

Marta F Maia and Sarah J Moore*

Malaria Journal 2011, 10(Suppl 1):S11 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-10-S1-S11

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Fresh, dried or smoked? repellent properties of volatiles emitted from ethnomedicinal plant leaves against malaria and yellow fever vectors in Ethiopia

Fitsum Dube, Kassahun Tadesse, Göran Birgersson, Emiru Seyoum, Habte Tekie, Rickard Ignell, Sharon R Hill Malaria Journal 2011, 10:375 (19 December 2011)

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A paper demonstrating that burning plants releases repellent volatiles that are repellent to mosquitoes. It also introduces a slight modification to the membrane method of testing mosquito repellents, which should be further pursued.

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