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Appendix C Mosquito Control Strategies
Pages 192-196

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... Appendix C Mosquito Control Strategies A list of mosquito strategies that are in use or in development are listed in Table C-1. As noted in Chapter 3 of this report, many of the strategies in use are labor intensive, reactive, and are losing their effectiveness if they work at all (Achee et al., 2015)
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... population reduction daytime biting vectors Smith Gueye et al., 2016 Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) Population reduction Reduction of household Insecticide resistance; Zhou et al., 2010; Yakob et al., 2011; insect pests outdoor vector resting Smith Gueye et al., 2016 ULV/Space-spraying Population reduction Highly visible by community Insecticide resistance; Esu et al., 2010; Bonds, 2012 delivery inside homes Larvicides and larval Population reduction Minimal interference with Delivery at adequate scale; Fillinger and Lindsay, 2011; source management end-user lifestyle insecticide resistance Imbahale et al., 2012; Tusting et al., 2013 Biocontrol Population reduction Resistance independent Delivery at adequate scale Scholte et al., 2006; Majambere et al., 2007 Gravid ovitraps Population reduction Shared health ownership Delivery at adequate scale; Mackay et al., 2013; with community maintenance Eiras et al., 2014 Personal repellents (DEET)
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... Primary Challenge(s) Select References Release of Insects with Population reduction Release of non-biting males Infrastructure to maintain colonies; Atkinson et al., 2007; Dominant Lethality (RIDL)
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... methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid environments regardless of the local availability of favoured sugar-source blossoms. Malar.
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... 2006. Infection of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae reduces blood feeding and fecundity.
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Key Terms

  • insecticide resistance
  • aedes aegypti
  • residual spray
  • larval source
  • malaria vectors

  • source management
  • bite prevention
  • adequate scale
  • malaria control
  • maintain colonies

  • mosquito larval
  • toxic sugar
  • smith gueye
  • attractive toxic
  • select references

  • indoor residual
  • anopheles gambiae
  • western kenya
  • multiple releases
  • mosquito control

  • sugar bait
  • insect pests
  • repeated mass
  • aegypti limits
  • anopheles arabiensis

  • anisopliae reduces
  • transmission settings
  • reduction highly
  • malaria vector
  • bacterium wolbachia


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