Safety of a topical insect repellent (picaridin) during community mass use for malaria control in rural Cambodia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: While community distribution of topical repellents has been proposed as an additional malaria control intervention, the safety of this intervention at the population level remains poorly evaluated. We describe the safety of mass distribution of the picaridin repellent during a cluster-randomised trial in rural Cambodia in 2012-2013.
METHODS: The repellent was distributed among 57 intervention villages with around 25,000 ...