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MOSQUITO-DISSEMINATED PYRIPROXYFEN YIELDS HIGH BREEDING-SITE COVERAGE AND BOOSTS JUVENILE MOSQUITO MORTALITY AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE
Abad-Franch, Fernando et al. | Date Issued: 2015
Author
Abad-Franch, Fernando
Perea, Elvira Zamora
Ferraz, Gonçalo
Torres, Samael D. Padilla
Luz, Sérgio L. B.
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane. Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane. Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Biociências. Departamento de Ecologia. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil / mithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project. Panama, PA, Panama / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane. Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane. Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Abstract
Mosquito-borne pathogens pose major public health challenges worldwide. With vaccines or effective drugs still unavailable for most such pathogens, disease prevention heavily relies on vector control. To date, however, mosquito control has proven difficult, with low breeding-site coverage during control campaigns identified as a major drawback. A novel tactic exploits the egg-laying behavior of mosquitoes to have them disseminate tiny particles of a potent larvicide, pyriproxyfen (PPF), from resting to breeding sites, thus improving coverage. This approach has yielded promising results at small spatial scales, but its wider applicability remains unclear.
Keywords in Portuguese
Patógenos
Mosquitos
Saúde Pública
Vacinas
Medicamentos
Controle de vetor
Larvicida
Pyriproxyfen (PPF)
 
Keywords
Pathogens
Mosquitos
Public health
Vaccines
Drugs
Vector control
Larvicide
Pyriproxyfen (PPF)
 
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Public Library of Science
Citation
ABAD-FRANCH, Fernando et al. Mosquito-disseminated pyriproxyfen yields high breeding-site coverage and boosts juvenile mosquito mortality at the neighborhood scale. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, v. 9 , n. 4, p.1-17, 2015.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pntd.0003702