Development of a Simple Dipstick Assay for Operational Monitoring of DDT.

• Main Authors: Hanafy M Ismail (Author), Vijay Kumar (Author), Rudra P Singh (Author), Christopher Williams (Author), Pushkar Shivam (Author), Ayan Ghosh (Author), Rinki Deb (Author), Geraldine M Foster (Author), Janet Hemingway (Author), Michael Coleman (Author), Marlize Coleman (Author), Pradeep Das (Author), Mark J I Paine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Indoor residual spraying (IRS) of DDT is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India. However, the quality of spraying is severely compromised by a lack of affordable field assays to monitor target doses of insecticide. Our aim was to develop a simple DDT insecticide quantificati...