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Special Issue on Malaria in Southern Africa

Blooming of insecticides from polyethylene mesh and film

António Benjamim Mapossa1 Institute of Applied Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;2 UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control & MRC Collaborating Centre for Malaria Research, School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3824-5356View further author information
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Mthoko Mayibongwe Sibanda1 Institute of Applied Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;2 UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control & MRC Collaborating Centre for Malaria Research, School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9765-9412View further author information
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Dennis Moyo2 UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control & MRC Collaborating Centre for Malaria Research, School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;3 Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0154-0135View further author information
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Taneshka Kruger2 UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control & MRC Collaborating Centre for Malaria Research, School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3701-054XView further author information
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Walter Wilhelm Focke1 Institute of Applied Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa;2 UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control & MRC Collaborating Centre for Malaria Research, School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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René Androsch4 Interdisciplinary Center for Transfer-oriented Research in Natural Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7924-0159View further author information
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Regine Boldt5 Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), Dresden, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6086-4586View further author information
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James Wesley-Smith6 Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Ga-Rankuwa, South AfricaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5627-5797View further author information
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Pages 127-136 | Published online: 17 May 2021

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