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Book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies  Experience and components from conventional chemical control

Download or read book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies Experience and components from conventional chemical control written by Marshall Laird and published by London ; Toronto : Academic Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on integrated mosquito control for the prevention of malaria and other mosquito diseases. It discusses common chemical insecticides and their gradual resistance.

Book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies

Download or read book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies written by Marshall Laird and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies  Biocontrol and other innovative components  and future directions

Download or read book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies Biocontrol and other innovative components and future directions written by Marshall Laird and published by London ; Toronto : Academic Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book supplements the information given in Volume 1 on the conventional methods of chemical control, with accounts of the ecological basis and economic aspects of bio-control. Special attention is given to innovative approaches such as the use of entomopathogenic bacteria. The other control methods discussed include the use of appropriate insect growth regulators, organo-phosphate and carbamate poisoning of adults and ways in which communities can help to reduce the sources of favourable environments for mosquito reproduction.**FROM THE PREFACE: As this second and last volume of Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies goes to press, it would be heartening to be able to record a rapidly diversifying application of such solutions to pest and vector problems. Regrettably, this is not yet possible. Our contributors have proffered much information which will serve as the basis for future such methodologies, with attention to relevant application technology, and a number of the examples they furnish illustrate ways in which two or more basically different approaches (chemical, environmental, or biological) have been purposely or fortuitously combined in the past. Yet in assembling the chapters, it proved impossible to obtain any accounts of integrated control projects so far designed and implemented for mosquito suppression on a larger scale than that of the operation against Aedes aegypti on the atoll of Funafuti (human population circa 2000), Tuvalu, an outline of which concludes this work.**Nevertheless, this can serve as a model for far larger undertakings employing the same innovative and conventional control agents (all of them currently available commercially) and appropriate new ones as they are developed, also for similar approaches to public relations and community involvement. For it is confidently believed that the Tuvalu methodology could be adapted with equal effect against other Culicidae of health importance, from the indigenous tropical Pacific container-breeders (e.g., Aedes polynesiensis), transmitting Bancroftian filariasis, to small-island populations of such surface-water breeders as the Melanesian malaria vectors of the Anopheles farauti complex--where exophily would pose new adulticiding problems, while the larval habitats would be open to a wider range of biocontrol agents, including appropriate larvivores, the importation of which would be unlikely to pose threats to the economy in islands lacking the natural basis for a freshwater fishery. We specify small-island populations of vector mosquitoes in this context because the simplification of ecological circumstances pertinent to disease transmission, and of public relations issues involving the humans being protected, make it far easier to develop integrated control methodologies there than in continental areas with heavy urbanization.

Book Mosquito Control  Some Perspectives for Developing Countries

Download or read book Mosquito Control Some Perspectives for Developing Countries written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Panel on Perspectives in Mosquito-Control Methods Suitable for Developing Countries and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1973 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dengue

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  • Author : World Health Organization
  • Publisher : World Health Organization
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9241547871
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Dengue written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended to contribute to prevention and control of the morbidity and mortality associated with dengue and to serve as an authoritative reference source for health workers and researchers. These guidelines are not intended to replace national guidelines but to assist in the development of national or regional guidelines. They are expected to remain valid for five years (until 2014), although developments in research could change their validity.--Publisher's description.

Book Mosquitoes and Their Control

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  • Author : Norbert Becker
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-08-18
  • ISBN : 354092874X
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Mosquitoes and Their Control written by Norbert Becker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosquitoes and Their Control presents a wealth of information on the bionomics, systematics, ecology, research techniques and control of both nuisance and disease vector mosquitoes in an easily readable style, providing practical guidelines and important information for professionals and laymen alike. Ninety-two European species and more than 100 globally important vector and nuisance species are included in the book. Most of them, including all European species, are described in the fully illustrated identification keys, followed by a detailed description of the morphology, biology, distribution and medical importance of each species, including over 700 detailed drawings. Mosquitoes and Their Control includes: systematics and biology, medical significance, research techniques, illustrated identification keys for larval and adult mosquito general, morphology, ecology, and distribution of the species identified in the keys, biological, chemical, physical and genetic control of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes and Their Control is a valuable tool for vector ecologists, entomologists, and all those involved with mosquito control, biology, ecology, and systematics world-wide. It will especially benefit those professionals, scientists and students dealing with mosquitoes and their control on a day-to-day basis. Society as a whole stands to gain from improved, environmentally responsible mosquito management programs designed on the basis of a broader understanding of mosquitoes and their control, as provided in this enlightening book.

Book Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control

Download or read book Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control written by Sonia Soloneski and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated Pest Management is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach that relies on a combination of common-sense practices. Its programs use current and comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interactions with the environment. This information, in combination with available pest control methods, is used to manage pest damage by the most economical means and with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment.

Book Saving Lives  Buying Time

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  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2004-09-09
  • ISBN : 0309165938
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Saving Lives Buying Time written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.

Book Area wide Integrated Pest Management

Download or read book Area wide Integrated Pest Management written by Jorge Hendrichs and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach, on an area-wide (AW) or population-wide (AW-IPM) basis, which aims at the management of the total population of a pest, involving a coordinated effort over often larger areas. For major livestock pests, vectors of human diseases and pests of high-value crops with low pest tolerance, there are compelling economic reasons for participating in AW-IPM. This new textbook attempts to address various fundamental components of AW-IPM, e.g. the importance of relevant problem-solving research, the need for planning and essential baseline data collection, the significance of integrating adequate tools for appropriate control strategies, and the value of pilot trials, etc. With chapters authored by 184 experts from more than 31 countries, the book includes many technical advances in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, resistance management, and social sciences that facilitate the planning and implementing of area-wide strategies. The book is essential reading for the academic and applied research community as well as national and regional government plant and human/animal health authorities with responsibility for protecting plant and human/animal health.

Book Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors

Download or read book Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors written by Mary M. Cameron and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies. While the mainstay of malaria control programmes relies on pesticides, there is a resurgence in the research and utilisation of non-insecticidal control measures due to concerns over rapid development and spread of insecticide resistance, and long-term environmental impacts. This book provides examples of successful applications in the field and recommendations for future use.

Book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies  Experience and components from conventional chemical control

Download or read book Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies Experience and components from conventional chemical control written by Marshall Laird and published by London ; Toronto : Academic Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on integrated mosquito control for the prevention of malaria and other mosquito diseases. It discusses common chemical insecticides and their gradual resistance.

Book Manual on Environmental Management for Mosquito Control

Download or read book Manual on Environmental Management for Mosquito Control written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Mosquito Control

Download or read book Advances in Mosquito Control written by Sarita Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosquitoes are the important global vectors transmitting diseases of human concern such as dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria, encephalitis and yellow fever, etc. Management of mosquito-borne diseases largely relies on the vector management because of the lack of effective medication and vaccination. Several strategies have been formulated and applied in the fields to control mosquitoes; yet there is a continued rise in mosquito-borne diseases leading to sufferings and morbidities. Presently, chemical interventions are the most preferred methods which has impacted human health and the environment negatively. These issues have created a demand to devise novel approaches which can be used safely and effectively for mosquito management. Thus, several innovative mosquito control interventions have been devised based on genetic, physical and behavioral modifications in mosquitoes. These strategies span from Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal (RIDL), creating transgenics with abnormal and lethal genes, gene drive technology, reducing the vectorial capacity by Wolbachia infection and application of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB), or by lasers and light detectors to investigate their behavior, and enhance their trap and kill. This Chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the conventional, and novel and innovative techniques devised for the control of mosquito vectors.

Book Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation

Download or read book Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation written by Edward Lichtenstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Intervention Trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT) is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and involves eleven pairs of communities in North America. COMMIT emphasizes a partnership between the eleven research institutions and their respective intervention communities in developing the structures needed to implement the intervention protocol. We summarize the epidemiological data and describe the prior community interventions that set the stage for COMMIT, and discuss how COMMIT may inform state-wide tobacco reduction demonstration programs. An overview of the articles that describe the COMMIT intervention and evaluation plan is presented.

Book Georgia Pest Management Handbook

Download or read book Georgia Pest Management Handbook written by Emily Cabrera and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia Pest Management Handbook provides current information on selection, application, and safe use of pest control chemicals. This handbook has recommendations for pest control around homes and on pets; for pests of home garden vegetables, fruits, and ornamentals; and for pests of public health interest associated with our homes. Cultural, biological, physical, and other types of control are recommended where appropriate. Pesticide recommendations are based on information on the manufacturer labels and on performance data from research and extension trials at the University of Georgia and its sister institutions. Because environmental conditions, the severity of pest pressure, and methods of application vary widely, recommendations do not imply that performance of pesticides will always be acceptable. This publication is intended to be used only as a guide. Trade and brand names are used only for information. The University of Georgia does not guarantee nor warrant published standards on any product mentioned; nor does the use of a trade or brand name imply approval of any product to the exclusion of others that may also be suitable. Always follow the use instructions and precautions on the pesticide label. For questions, concerns, or improvement suggestions regarding the Georgia Pest Management Handbook, please contact your county agent.

Book Handbook for Integrated Vector Management

Download or read book Handbook for Integrated Vector Management written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated vector management (IVM) is a rational decision-making process for optimal use of resources for vector control. The aim of the IVM approach is to contribute to achievement of the global targets set for vector-borne disease control, by making vector control more efficient, cost-effective, ecologically sound and sustainable. Use of IVM helps vector control programs to find and use more local evidence, to integrate interventions where appropriate and to collaborate within the health sector and with other sectors, as well as with households and communities. By reorientating to IVM, vector control programs will be better able to meet the growing challenges in the control of malaria, dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the face of dwindling public sector human and financial resources. This handbook presents an operational framework to guide managers and those implementing vector-borne disease control programs in designing more efficient, cost-effective systems. As a national IVM policy and an intersectoral steering committee are essential for establishing IVM as a national strategy, the handbook begins with the policy and institutional framework for IVM. Policy analysis is a means for identifying options for policy reform and suggesting instruments for implementing policy. IVM transforms the conventional system of vector control by making it more evidence-based, integrated and participative. This may require changes in roles, responsibilities and organizational links. The transition to IVM involves both reorientation of vector-borne disease control programs and embedding IVM within local health systems. Intersectoral partnerships and collaboration at both national and local levels will result in cost savings and benefits to other health services. Other relevant sectors, such as agriculture, environment, mining, industry, public works, local government and housing, should incorporate IVM and vector control into their own activities to prevent vector proliferation and disease transmission. Planning and implementing IVM involve assessing the epidemiological and vector situation at country level, analyzing the local determinants of disease, identifying and selecting vector control methods, assessing requirements and resources and designing locally appropriate implementation strategies. Solid evidence on the cost-effectiveness of interventions and their underlying parameters and a comprehensive vector surveillance system are essential for locally appropriate decision-making. Capacity-building, in particular human resource development, is a major challenge, because the IVM strategy requires skilled staff and adequate infrastructure at central and local levels. The handbook outlines the core functions and essential competence required for IVM at central and local levels, complementing a separate set of documents containing the Core structure for training curricula on integrated vector management and associated training materials. Like any new approach, IVM must be actively advocated and communicated in order to become established. The handbook lays out the elements and processes of IVM to enable policy-makers, donors and implementing partners to use it for vector-borne disease control. During the period of transition and consolidation of an IVM strategy, regular feedback is required on performance and impact in order to ensure continued support. The general public must also be made aware of the strategy and participate in its implementation. The communication tools for reaching the public are the media and various types of educational interventions to increase their knowledge and skills, which should lead to behavioral change and empowerment. The final section presents a comprehensive framework for monitoring and evaluation of IVM, covering aspects discussed in the previous sections. Indicators and methods for measuring process, outcomes and impact are proposed.

Book Mosquito Control

Download or read book Mosquito Control written by William Brodbeck Herms and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: