Advancing the art of mosquito control: the journey of the sterile insect technique against Aedes aegypti in Cuba
作者机构：Sterile Insect Technique Laboratory Department of Vector Control Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí Havana Cuba Department of Epidemiology Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí Havana Cuba Toxicology and Genetics Laboratory Department of Vector Control Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí Havana Cuba Ecology Laboratory Department of Vector Control Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí Havana Cuba
出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)
年 卷 期：2024年第13卷第4期
页 面：96-96页
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基 金：Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Health Organization (WHO) IAEA
主 题：Cuba Aedes aegypti Sterile insect technique Vector control Arbovirus transmission Mosquito
摘 要：Background Aedes aegypti,the primary vector of dengue,chikungunya,and Zika viruses,poses a significant public health threat *** control methods using insecticides are increasingly challenged by resistance and environmental *** sterile insect technique(SIT)offers an eco-friendly alternative that has been suc-cessfully applied to other insect *** article aims to briefly review *** management in Cuba,highlighting the accomplishments,challenges,and future directions of the *** body Here we provide a brief summary of the extensive history of *** control efforts in *** a successful eradication campaign in the 1980s,a resurgence of dengue cases has been observed in recent years,suggesting that traditional control methods may have limited effectiveness under current *** response,Cuba initiated a phased approach to develop and evaluate the feasibility of SIT for *** control,starting in *** research focused on *** mating behavior and sterilization methods,followed by successful laboratory and semi-field trials that demonstrated population *** first open-field trial in 2020 confirmed the eff-cacy of the SIT in reducing *** populations under real-world ***,the research is in a phase involving a cluster-randomized superiority-controlled *** planned trial will compare the standard vector control program with the same program augmented by the SIT,aiming to assess the impact of the SIT on dengue incidence as the primary *** robust epidemiological trials to evaluate the effectiveness of the SiT is com-plex due to potential spillover effects from mosquito and human movement across study ***,con-ducting the SIT requires significant development and operational *** these challenges,the ongo-ing Cuban trial holds promise for establishing the SIT as an effective and sustainable tool for *** control an
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