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Drugs and Disease as Mosquito Repellents in Man^*

Hospitalized patients with various diseases and taking various medications were surveyed for their attractiveness to mosquitoes by a mosquito-probing technique. No drug was found that induced unattractiveness, and no disease was associated with unattractiveness, with the possible exception of untreated myxedema. Vitamins, expecially B₁, in biting and probing tests were found inactive systemic mosquito repellents.

^* This investigation was supported by the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2466.

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