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Cost of intensive routine control and incremental cost of insecticide-treated curtain deployment in a setting with low Aedes aegypti infestation

Abstract: INTRODUCTION Information regarding the cost of implementing insecticide-treated curtains (ITCs) is scarce. Therefore, we evaluated the ITC implementation cost, in addition to the costs of intensive conventional routine activities of the Aedes control program in the city of Guantanamo, Cuba. ...

Avaliaçäo da resistência a inseticidas em populaçäo de Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) do Rio Pinheiros (Säo Paulo, Brasil)

Mostra o surgimento de resistência na populaçäo de Culex quinquefasciatus do rio Pinheiros (linhagem PIN) aos organofosforados malation (3,2 vezes), fenitrotion (11,2 vezes) e ao carbamato propoxur (3,0 vezes) quando comparados à linhagem suscetível IAL. O principal mecanismo bioquímico da resistê...