The emergence of insecticide resistance in central Mozambique and potential threat to the successful indoor residual spraying malaria control programme.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria vector control by indoor residual spraying was reinitiated in 2006 with DDT in Zambézia province, Mozambique. In 2007, these efforts were strengthened by the President's Malaria Initiative. This manuscript reports on the monitoring and evaluation of this programme as carried out by the Malaria Decision Support Project.

Methods

Mosquitoes were captured daily through a series of 114 window exit traps located at 19 sentinel sites, identified to species and analysed for sporozoites. Anopheles mosquitoes were collected resting indoors and tested for insecticide resistance following the standard WHO protocol. Annual cross sectional household parasite surveys were carried out to monitor the impact of the control programme on prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in

SUBMITTER: Abilio AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3096596 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature