Evaluation of community-based strategies for Aedes aegypti control inside houses
Keywords:
Aedes aegypti, vector control, Bacillus thuringiensis, dengue, consumer participation
Abstract
Introduction: Dengue viruses transmitted principally by the urban mosquito Aedes aegypti, cause one of the major public health problems confronting tropical cities. Insecticide spraying has been the mainstay of mosquito control; however, its continuous use has selected for resistance. Other important methods of control involve community participation.
Objective: This study evaluated two control methods for Ae. aegypti that can be used by the community: Lethal ovitraps (LOs) and Bacillus thuringiensis var israeliensis (Bti) briquettes.
Materials and methods: The project study was carried out in four similar neighborhoods within a representative district in the city of Cali, Colombia. Three interventions (LO, Bti, LO+Bti plus education and one control (education only) area were evaluated for efficacy in post-intervention entomological surveys. Additionally, entomological indices were also compared to results from a pre-intervention survey carried out on a sample of city blocks in the same neighborhoods. Relative vector abundance in relation to weather conditions using the same entomological sampling methods was compared.
Results: The interventions did not achieve significant differences in vector abundance among the treatments. However, the interventions achieved a significant reduction in entomological indices compared with those observed during the pre-intervention survey: House index 15.1% vs. 8.5%, mean pupae per house 1.15 vs. 0.073, and Adult index 56.3% vs. 34.8% (p<0.05).
Conclusions: The lack of significant differences among the interventions, and between treated and control blocks suggested that educational activities together with periodic visits to the houses produced similar reductions of immature and adult Aedes aegypti.
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2. Guha-Sapir D, Schimmer B. Dengue fever: new paradigms for a changing epidemiology. Emerg Themes Epidemiol. 2005;2:1.
3. Gubler DJ. The changing epidemiology of yellow fever and dengue, 1900 to 2003: full circle? Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis. 2004;27:319-30.
4. Gubler DJ. Resurgent vector-borne diseases as a global health problem. Emerg Infect Dis. 1998;4:442-50.
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6. Christopher RS. Aedes aegypti (L.), the yellow fever mosquito; its life history, bionomics and structure. London: Cambridge Univ. Press; 1960.
7. Morrison AC, Costero A, Edman JD, Clark GG, Scott TW. Increased fecundity of Aedes aegypti fed human blood before release in a mark-recapture study in Puerto Rico. J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 1999;15:98-104.
8. Perich MJ, Davila G, Turner A, Garcia A, Nelson M. Behavior of resting Aedes aegypti (Culicidae: Diptera) and its relation to ultra-low volume adulticide efficacy in Panama City, Panama. J Med Entomol. 2000;37:541-6.
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11. Gubler D. The emergence of epidemic dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Americas: a case of failed public health policy. Rev Panam Salud Pública. 2005;17:221-4.
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21. WHO. Environmental Health Criteria, No 217: Bacillus thuringiensis; 1999.
22. Reiter P, Amador MA, Colon N. Enhancement of the CDC ovitrap with hay infusions for daily monitoring of Aedes aegypti populations. Am J Mosq Control Assoc. 1991;7:52-5.
23. Sithiprasasna R, Mahapibul P, Noigamol C, et al. Field evaluation of a lethal ovitrap for the control of Aedes aegypti (Culicidae) in Thailand. J Med Entomol. 2003;40:455-62.
24. Giraldo-Calderon G, Pérez M, Morales CA, Ocampo CB. Evaluación del triflumurón y la mezcla de Bacillus thuringiensis más Bacillus sphaericus para el control de las formas inmaduras de Aedes aegypti y Culex quinquefasciatus en sumideros de Cali, Colombia. Biomédica 2008;28:224-33.
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Ocampo CB, González C, Morales CA, Pérez M, Wesson D, Apperson CS. Evaluation of community-based strategies for Aedes aegypti control inside houses. Biomed. [Internet]. 2009 Jun. 1 [cited 2026 Jan. 13];29(2):282-97. Available from: https://revistabiomedicaorg.biteca.online/index.php/biomedica/article/view/30
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