Blackflies in the ointment: O. volvulus vector biting can be significantly reduced by the skin-application of mineral oil during human landing catches.

• Main Authors: Túllio Romão Ribeiro da Silva (Author), James Lee Crainey (Author), Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa (Author), Yago Vinícius Serra Dos Santos (Author), Jordam William Pereira-Silva (Author), Lorena Ferreira de Oliveira Leles (Author), Ana Carolina Vicente (Author), Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Standard human landing catches (sHLCs) have historically been a key component of Onchocerca volvulus transmission monitoring, but expose health-workers to potentially hazardous vector bites. Novel human-bait-free trapping methods have been developed, but do not always work where they are...