Insecticide-based approaches for dengue vector control : progress in the global vector control response
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2021-02-18
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Wageningen Academic Publishers
Abstract
Vector control is, and will continue to be, an essential component of dengue prevention programs, but in modern cities with highly mobile human populations and inadequate vector control infrastructure the global burden of dengue is increasing. This is in part because effective vector control is difficult to achieve and sustain. Despite these challenges, past successes indicate that when it is carefully and thoroughly applied, mosquito control will reduce dengue, particularly when targeting Aedes aegypti in urban habitats. Herein we review insecticide-based approaches for dengue vector control. We conclude that to fight dengue it is important to use locally derived and adapted vector control tools and strategies.
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DENGUE, AEDES AEGYPTI, AEDES ALBOPICTUS, INSECTICIDES, DISEASE VECTORS, VECTOR CONTROL, GLOBAL