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Safety of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for infants and their mothers: randomized controlled community trial in Burkina Faso

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, December 2015
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Title
Safety of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for infants and their mothers: randomized controlled community trial in Burkina Faso
Published in
Malaria Journal, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-1068-6
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Guangyu Lu, Corneille Traoré, Peter Meissner, Bocar Kouyaté, Gisela Kynast-Wolf, Claudia Beiersmann, Boubacar Coulibaly, Heiko Becher, Olaf Müller

Abstract

Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are now the main tool for malaria prevention in endemic areas. Synthetic pyrethroids are the only group of insecticides recommended by the World Health Organization for the use on ITNs. There are only few studies which have specifically investigated potential adverse effects of frequent exposure to ITNs in the vulnerable group of young infants and their mothers. This study was nested into a large randomized controlled ITN effectiveness trial. Ninety newborns and their mothers were selected from the study population for participation. Together with their mothers they were protected with ITNs from birth (group A, n = 45) or from age 6 months (group B, n = 45) and followed up for 18 weeks (daily visits in the first 4 weeks, weekly visits thereafter). Potential side effects related to synthetic pyrethroids (deltamethrin) exposure were systematically investigated by trained field staff. The frequency and duration of respective symptoms was compared between the two study groups. A total of 180 participants (90 mothers and 90 infants) were followed up over the study period without any loss to follow up. There were no significant differences in the frequency and duration of side effects between the two study groups, except that the frequency of headache was significantly higher in group A compared to group B mothers (p = 0.01). The study provides further evidence for ITNs being sufficiently safe in children and even in newborns. The association with headache in mothers could be explained by them handling the ITNs more intensely or it could be a chance finding.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 114 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Researcher 17 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Postgraduate 8 7%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 26 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 9%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 6%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 31 27%
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#24
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