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Absence of impact of aerial malathion treatment on Aedes aegypti during a dengue outbreak in Kingston, Jamaica

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1999
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Castle, Trevor
Amador, Manuel
Rawlins, Samuel
Figueroa, J. Peter
Reiter, Paul
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Abstract
During an outbreak of dengue fever in Jamaica from October to December 1995, a study was carried out to determine the impact of aerial ultra-low volume malathion treatment on adult Aedes aegypti. This was done by monitoring oviposition rates of the vector in three urban communities in Kingston and by exposing caged mosquitoes both directly and inirectly to the aerial malathion treatment. The insecticide was delivered at a rate of 219 mL/ha between 7:10 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. The results of the study clearly showed that the insecticide application was ineffective in interfering with Aedes aegypti oviposition, and adult mosquitoes held in cages inside dwellings were largely unaffected. Consequently, this type of intervention seemed to have little significant impact in arresting or abating dengue transmission
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Rev Panam Salud Publica;5(2),feb. 1999
Subject
Dengue; Surtos de Doenças; Aedes; Resistência a Inseticidas; Jamaica
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http://iris.paho.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/8963
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Castle, Trevor,Amador, Manuel,Rawlins, Samuel,Figueroa, J. Peter,Reiter, Paul (1999) Absence of impact of aerial malathion treatment on Aedes aegypti during a dengue outbreak in Kingston, Jamaica. Rev Panam Salud Publica;5(2) -,feb. 1999. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49891999000200005&lng=pt&nrm=iso
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