Table 1 Strategies being proposed and explored for vector control [85]
From: Yellow fever control: current epidemiology and vaccination strategies
Strategies | Description of methods |
|---|---|
Dissemination of larvicidal agents through contaminated adult mosquitoes | Entomopathogenic Ascomycetes fungi are potential novel larvicides of dengue vectors, which are also YF vectors |
Inhibit mosquito host seeking | Spatial repellents such as transfluthrin and metofluthrin disperse effectively |
Traps to reduce vectors | Use traps to remove gravid females |
“Attractive toxic sugar baits” | Solutions containing sugar, an attractant, and toxin used indoors and outdoors to kill mosquitoes |
Insecticide-treated materials | New technology microencapsulation binds deeper in the fabric and promises increased stability and longer release of the insecticide |
“Sterile insect technology” | Release sterilized males with improved sterilization method to reduce offspring population |
Release of insects with dominant lethality | Release mosquitoes that carry a transgenic construct that restricts survival, hence reduces that mosquito species |
Natural intracellular bacterial symbiont Wolbachia | Male mosquitoes infected by Wolbachia can reduce the viability of eggs from its female mates |
“Gene drives” | A transgenic element inserted into the sequence that leads to mosquito population replacement and population suppression (e.g. by creating a sterile allele) |