Biological and environmental control of disease vectors /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Insect pests > Biological control.; Pests > Biological control.; Insects as carriers of disease.; Insects > Control.; Insect Vectors.; Insect Control > methods.; Pest Control, Biological > methods.; Tropical Diseases.; Biological Control.; Environmental Pest Management.; Integrated Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Repellents and Attractants.; Other Control Measures.; Water Resources.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Arthropods.; Dengue virus.; Fishes.; Plants.; Plasmodium.; Schistosoma.; Biological control.; Biological control agents.; Dengue.; Disease control.; Disease vectors.; Entomogenous fungi.; Entomopathogens.; Environmental control.; Human diseases.; Integrated pest management.; Lymphatic filariasis.; Malaria.; Mosquito-borne diseases.; Natural enemies.; Pathogens.; Pheromones.; Sanitation.; Schistosomiasis.; Screens.; Semiochemicals.; Vector control.; Vector-borne diseases.; Water management.; Electronic books.
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This book, inclusive of 11 chapters, discusses various non-pesticide-based control strategies against several medically-important disease vector species, including those relevant to the control of malaria, dengue, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis. Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion...

Table of Contents:

• Control with arthropods
• Use of larvivorous fish in disease vectors
• The use of plants in vector control
• Control of disease vectors using fungi
• Vector control using semiochemicals
• House screening
• Sanitation & vector control
• Water management for disease vector control
• Integrated vector management
• Evidence required for adoption of new vector control methods in public health.