Chemical and Plant-Based Insect Repellents: Efficacy, Safety, and Toxicity

Most emerging infectious diseases today are arthropod-borne and cannot be prevented by vaccinations. Because insect repellents offer important topical barriers of personal protection from arthropod-borne infectious diseases, the main objectives of this article were to describe the growing threats to...

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Published in:	Wilderness & environmental medicine Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 153 - 163
Main Author:	Diaz, James H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA Elsevier Inc 01.03.2016 SAGE Publications
Subjects:	Acari - drug effects Acaricides - adverse effects Acaricides - pharmacology Acaricides - toxicity Animals Arthropod Vectors - drug effects arthropod-borne Communicable Diseases - epidemiology Communicable Diseases - etiology Emergency Humans infectious diseases insect Insect Bites and Stings - etiology Insect Bites and Stings - prevention & control Insect Repellents - adverse effects Insect Repellents - classification Insect Repellents - pharmacology Insect Repellents - toxicity Insecta - drug effects insecticides Insecticides - adverse effects Insecticides - classification Insecticides - pharmacology Insecticides - toxicity mosquito-borne Plant Extracts - adverse effects Plant Extracts - chemistry Plant Extracts - pharmacology Plant Extracts - toxicity repellents tick-borne arthropod-borne infectious diseases tick-borne insect repellents insecticides mosquito-borne
ISSN:	1080-6032, 1545-1534
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