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The control practices applied to limit the activities of these arthropods included keeping the environment clean (40.80%), the use of insecticides (37.33%), the use of repellents (8.68%), spraying houses with kerosene (7.81%), spraying of fuel on the arthropods (3.47%), screening of houses (1.39%) and the use of bed nets (0.52%).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>An assessment and determination of knowledge, attitudes and control practices regarding venomous arthropods among the staff and students of NAU is necessary in order to improve the preventive measures to reduce injuries caused by venomous arthropod encounters, which are some of the most underestimated health hazards in tropical regions, including southeastern Nigeria, affecting primarily rural communities. According to the findings of our study, students and staff at NAU are rarely involved in life-threatening incidents as a result of their encounters with venomous arthropods and most apply several globally accepted standard practices for the control of venomous arthropods.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/trstmh\/trab171","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,22]],"date-time":"2021-10-22T23:13:10Z","timestamp":1634944390000},"page":"278-280","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Knowledge, attitudes and control practices regarding venomous arthropods among staff and students in a Nigerian public university campus"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"116","author":[{"given":"Vivian Onyinyechukwu","family":"Ogbusu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Angus Ejidikeme","family":"Onyido","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4840-5918","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chidiebere Emmanuel","family":"Okechukwu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Izunna Somadina","family":"Okwelogu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,13]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"2022030221285961300_bib1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"650","DOI":"10.1590\/0037-8682-0242-2015","article-title":"Venomous and poisonous arthropods: identification, clinical manifestations of envenomation, and treatments used in human injuries","volume":"48","author":"Haddad Junior","year":"2015","journal-title":"Rev Soc Bras Med Trop"},{"issue":"6","key":"2022030221285961300_bib2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"819","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jaad.2003.12.019","article-title":"Arthropods in dermatology","volume":"50","author":"Steen","year":"2004","journal-title":"J Am Acad Dermatol"},{"issue":"7","key":"2022030221285961300_bib3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"481","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-4362.1998.00455.x","article-title":"Bites and stings of medically important venomous arthropods","volume":"37","author":"Vetter","year":"1998","journal-title":"Int J Dermatol"},{"issue":"24","key":"2022030221285961300_bib4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7519","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1502408112","article-title":"New approaches narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods","volume":"112","author":"Stork","year":"2015","journal-title":"Proc Natl Acad Sci USA"},{"key":"2022030221285961300_bib5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tmaid.2018.12.007","article-title":"Use of repellents by travellers: a randomised, quantitative analysis of applied dosage and an evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP)","volume":"28","author":"Hasler","year":"2019","journal-title":"Travel Med Infect Dis"}],"container-title":["Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/trstmh\/article-pdf\/116\/3\/278\/42685850\/trab171.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/trstmh\/article-pdf\/116\/3\/278\/42685850\/trab171.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,2]],"date-time":"2022-03-02T21:30:09Z","timestamp":1646256609000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/trstmh\/article\/116\/3\/278\/6427275"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,13]]},"references-count":5,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,13]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,2]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/trstmh\/trab171","relation":{},"ISSN":["0035-9203","1878-3503"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0035-9203"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1878-3503"}],"subject":[],"published-other":{"date-parts":[[2022,3]]},"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,13]]}}}