ABSTRACT
The Insect Repellents Handbook reviews the current state of science and product development for personal protection from biting arthropods. The world currently enjoys a wide variety of tools, including a variety of topical repellents, protective clothing, area repellents, bed nets, and screens. Despite a relatively small commercial market, vigorous improvement of these products continues. Manufacturers seek new active ingredients and new formats for putting those chemicals between a person and an arthropod. Applied research supports those improvements and also provides realistic estimates of the effectiveness of personal protection. Basic research makes scientic discoveries that are the sources of the truly innovative solutions of the future, either by discovering the unexpected or by careful description of biological mechanisms.
