Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa: an introduction
| Autor: | Andreas Rose, Patrick Hartmann, Johan Deschietere, Issa N. Lyimo, Rob Andriessen, Ladslaus L. Mnyone, Johan M. H. Knols, Janneke Snetselaar, Eleanore D. Sternberg, Valeriana S. Mayagaya, Stella T. Kessy, Michael Cordel, Remco Alexander Suer, Bart G. J. Knols, Kija R Ng'habi, Sergej Sperling, Anne J. Osinga, Marit Farenhorst, Matthew B. Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Mosquito Control
Eaves Resistance 030231 tropical medicine Indoor residual spraying Malaria elimination Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine parasitic diseases Disease Transmission Infectious medicine Animals Humans Eave tube 030212 general & internal medicine Africa South of the Sahara Vector control business.industry Entry point medicine.disease Malaria 3. Good health Biotechnology Product (business) Mosquito control Infectious Diseases Risk analysis (engineering) Vector (epidemiology) Africa Housing Commentary Female Parasitology business House modification |
| Zdroj: | Malaria Journal |
| ISSN: | 1475-2875 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-016-1452-x |
| Popis: | In spite of massive progress in the control of African malaria since the turn of the century, there is a clear and recognized need for additional tools beyond long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides, to progress towards elimination. Moreover, widespread and intensifying insecticide resistance requires alternative control agents and delivery systems to enable development of effective insecticide resistance management strategies. This series of articles presents a novel concept for malaria vector control, the ‘eave tube’, which may fulfil these important criteria. From its conceptualization to laboratory and semi-field testing, to demonstration of potential for implementation, the stepwise development of this new vector control approach is described. These studies suggest eave tubes (which comprise a novel way of delivering insecticides plus screening to make the house more ‘mosquito proof’) could be a viable, cost-effective, and acceptable control tool for endophilic and endophagic anophelines, and possibly other (nuisance) mosquitoes. The approach could be applicable in a wide variety of housing in sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly beyond, for vectors that use the eave as their primary house entry point. The results presented in these articles were generated during an EU-FP7 funded project, the mosquito contamination device (MCD) project, which ran between 2012 and 2015. This was a collaborative project undertaken by vector biologists, product developers, modellers, materials scientists, and entrepreneurs from five different countries. |
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