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Clariant enables a better mosquito net

by Michael McCoy
May 3, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 18

 

The structure of pyriproxyfen.

Clariant has launched a pesticide-filled polymer masterbatch used to make antimalaria mosquito nets. Adding pyrethroid insecticides to mosquito nets has decreased the incidence of malaria in sub-Saharan regions but also increased resistance in mosquitoes. Clariant’s masterbatch contains the pyrethroid alphacypermethrin plus the growth inhibitor pyriproxyfen. The combination, which Disease Control Technologies uses to make nets, has been evaluated by the World Health Organization, Clariant says.

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