Novel odor-based strategies for integrated management of vectors of disease

Abstract

The proven ability of vector mosquitoes to adapt to various strategies developed to control them has enabled mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and lymphatic filariasis to remain entrenched as public health threats all over the world. Rather than continuing to seek a miracle cure for all mosquito vector problems among the ranks of single mode-ofaction chemical pesticides, today's developers of vector control strategies are increasingly turning to more integrated, varied techniques, relying on pheromones and other semiochemicals to effect vector control through behavioral manipulation of the vector. Examples of this focus include attract-and-kill technologies utilizing floral odors and vertebrate host-associated scent cues to achieve control of adult mosquitoes, and selective oviposition attractants and larval phagostimulants to improve the efficacy of bacterial larvicides.

Published in

Current Opinion in Insect Science
2019, volume: 34, pages: 105-111
Publisher: ELSEVIER

SLU Authors

• Dekker, Teun

  • Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

SLU Plant Protection Network

Global goals (SDG)

SDG3 Good health and well-being

UKÄ Subject classification

Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Ecology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.05.007

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/101666