A critical assessment of vector control for dengue prevention

NL Achee, F Gould, TA Perkins… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Recently, the Vaccines to Vaccinate (v2V) initiative was reconfigured into the Partnership for
Dengue Control (PDC), a multi-sponsored and independent initiative. This redirection is …

Assessing the relationship between vector indices and dengue transmission: a systematic review of the evidence

LR Bowman, S Runge-Ranzinger… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite doubts about methods used and the association between vector
density and dengue transmission, routine sampling of mosquito vector populations is …

Field evaluation of the establishment potential of wmelpop Wolbachia in Australia and Vietnam for dengue control

TH Nguyen, HL Nguyen, TY Nguyen, SN Vu, ND Tran… - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Introduced Wolbachia bacteria can influence the susceptibility of
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to arboviral infections as well as having detrimental effects on …

Combining contact tracing with targeted indoor residual spraying significantly reduces dengue transmission

GM Vazquez-Prokopec, BL Montgomery, P Horne… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The widespread transmission of dengue viruses (DENV), coupled with the alarming
increase of birth defects and neurological disorders associated with Zika virus, has put the …

Citizen science and smartphone e-entomology enables low-cost upscaling of mosquito surveillance

LB Sousa, SR Fricker, SS Doherty, CE Webb… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mosquito surveillance remains a cornerstone of pest and disease control operations globally
but is strongly limited in scale by resources. The use of citizen science to upscale scientific …

The Eye of the Tiger, the Thrill of the Fight: Effective Larval and Adult Control Measures Against the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera …

A Faraji, I Unlu - Journal of medical entomology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is a highly invasive container-
inhabiting species with a global distribution. This mosquito, similar to other Stegomyia …

Comparative evaluation of the efficiency of the BG-Sentinel trap, CDC light trap and Mosquito-oviposition trap for the surveillance of vector mosquitoes

Y Li, X Su, G Zhou, H Zhang, S Puthiyakunnon… - Parasites & vectors, 2016 - Springer
Background The surveillance of vector mosquitoes is important for the control of mosquito-
borne diseases. To identify a suitable surveillance tool for the adult dengue vector Aedes …

Development of the Gravid Aedes Trap for the Capture of Adult Female Container–Exploiting Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

AE Eiras, TS Buhagiar, SA Ritchie - Journal of medical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring dengue vector control by sampling adult Aedes aegypti (L.) recently has been
used to replace both larval and pupal surveys. We have developed and evaluated the …

Searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack: advances in mosquito-borne arbovirus surveillance

AL Ramírez, AF van den Hurk, DB Meyer, SA Ritchie - Parasites & vectors, 2018 - Springer
Surveillance is critical for the prevention and control of mosquito-borne arboviruses.
Detection of elevated or emergent virus activity serves as a warning system to implement …

The state of the art of lethal oviposition trap-based mass interventions for arboviral control

BJ Johnson, SA Ritchie, DM Fonseca - Insects, 2017 - mdpi.com
The intensifying expansion of arboviruses highlights the need for effective invasive Aedes
control. While mass-trapping interventions have long been discredited as inefficient …