Publications
Insecticide treated curtains and residual insecticide treatment to control Aedes aegypti: an acceptability study in Santiago de Cuba Institute of Tropical Medicine Ghent University
Background
Within the context of a field trial conducted by the Cuban vector control program (AaCP), we assessed acceptability of insecticide-treated curtains (ITCs) and residual insecticide treatment (RIT) with deltamethrin by the community. We also assessed the potential influence of interviewees' risk perceptions for getting dengue and disease severity.
Methodology/principal findings
We embedded a qualitative study ...
Pesticides and reduced-risk insecticides, native bees and pantropical stingless bees: pitfalls and perspectives Ghent University
Susceptibility status of the wild-caught Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), the sand fly vector of visceral leishmaniasis, to different insecticides in Nepal Institute of Tropical Medicine
BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is targeted for elimination as a public health problem in Nepal by 2023. For nearly three decades, the core vector control intervention in Nepal has been indoor residual spraying (IRS) with pyrethroids. Considering the long-term use of pyrethroids and the possible development of resistance in the vector Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies, we monitored the susceptibility status of their field populations ...