**Author details**

Josué Herrera-Bojórquez1 , Josué Villegas-Chim1 \*, Daniel Adrian1 , Azael Che-Mendoza1 , Juan Navarrete-Carballo1 , Anuar Medina-Barreiro1 , Miguel Xcaer1 , Hugo Delfín-González1 , Norma Pavía-Ruz<sup>2</sup> , Henry Puerta-Guardo1,2, María Eugenia Toledo-Romaní3 , Héctor Gómez-Dantés4 , Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec5 and Pablo Manrique-Saide1

1 Autonomous University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico

2 Regional Research Center "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Autonomous University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico

3 Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí" (IPK), Habana, Cuba

4 National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

5 Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: jovich.etnos@gmail.com

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*Low-Cost Materials for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Installation of House Screening… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107838*

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