Combining fungal biopesticides and insecticide-treated bednets to enhance malaria control.

ABSTRACT: In developing strategies to control malaria vectors, there is increased interest in biological methods that do not cause instant vector mortality, but have sublethal and lethal effects at different ages and stages in the mosquito life cycle. These techniques, particularly if integrated with other vector control interventions, may produce substantial reductions in malaria transmission due to the total effect of alterations to multiple life history parameters at relevant points in the life-cycle and transmission-cycle of the vector. To quantify this effect, an analytically tractable gonotrophic cycle model of mosquito-malaria interactions is developed that unites existing continuous and discrete feeding cycle approaches. As a case study, the combined use of fungal biopesticides and insectici

SUBMITTER: Hancock PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2742557 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature