Faculty Opinions recommendation of Vector biology meets disease control: using basic research to fight vector-borne diseases.

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals suggest an intersectoral approach for development and health, including for vector-borne diseases. Evidence-based policy recommendations exist for malaria and housing, but not for other, more underfunded, vector-borne diseases. This review aims to stimulate the process for developing policy recommendations for other vector-borne diseases and housing with the process as it was developed for dengue and Aedes control as an example and with suggestions for steps necessary for other vector-borne diseases. For dengue, some basic research on the efficacy of vector control in relation to housing exists, summary evidence highlights the lack of evidence and efficacy and policy recommendations remain difficult. For other vector-borne diseases, few studies have focused on protecting the house, combinations of effective interventions (e.g. intradomiciliary residual spraying, insecticide-treated materials and treatment of larval habitats with biological and chemical methods, which have proven to be effective) have not been studied and summary evidence is non-existent. In order to recommend vector control to protect the house against vector-borne diseases, basic research and summary evidence are needed, with an appropriate combination of the most efficacious interventions and linked to improvement of housing itself. Standards for such studies need to be developed.

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Assessment of national vector borne disease control programme in state of Karnataka

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20190028 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 525

Author(s):

Puneet Kumar Arali ◽

Deepthi N. Shanbhag

Keyword(s):

Disease Control ◽

Lymphatic Filariasis ◽

Health Workers ◽

Medical Officer ◽

Control Programme ◽

Family Welfare ◽

Vector Borne Diseases ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Vector Borne ◽

Disease Control Programme

ABSTRACTBackground:National vector borne disease control programme(NVBDCP) was launched to control the prevalence of vector borne diseases like malaria, filaria, Japanese encephalitis (JE), Dengue/DHF, chikungunya, lymphatic filariasis and Kala Azar. The present study was done to assess the activities of NVBDCP in state of Karnatakaand to analyze selective qualitative and quantitative indicators related to the activities.Methods:Quantitatively retrospective data was collected from Directorate office Department of Health and Family Welfare, NVBDCP section from April 2016 to March 2017. Qualitatively questionnaire based protocol was made and interviews were conducted with District programme officer, PHC medical officer and grass root level health workers like ANM, ASHA with reference to one each of selected least performing districts and good performing districts in the state. The collected data was analysed by using Microsoft Excel 2010 version.Results:The highest prevalent districts in Karnataka areDakshina Kannada for malaria, Udupi for dengue, Tumakurufor chikungunya andBidar for lymphatic filariasis. Major factors related to poor outcome in some districts were rigid attitude of the community, poor support of local panchayats and less human resources.Conclusion:The result of this investigation revealed that Dakshina Kannada has got highest number of cases with greater proposition and high prevalence rate of vector borne diseases due to lack of sufficient human resources and geographical factors. Strengthening the surveillance activities along with integrated vector control programmes will improves the outcome of the programme.

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The Biology of Disease Vectors, 2nd Edn (ed. Marquardt, W. C.), pp. 785. Elsevier Academic Press, USA, 2005. ISBN 0 12 473276 3. £62.99.

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s0031182005219674 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 132 (1) ◽

pp. 153-153

Author(s):

HILARY HURD

Keyword(s):

Disease Vectors ◽

Academic Press ◽

Disease Course ◽

State University ◽

Vector Biology ◽

Colorado State University ◽

Vector Borne Diseases ◽

The Usa ◽

History Of ◽

Vector Borne

Vector biology has become a fast moving field. Spurred on by the recent exciting advances in the molecular biology, genomics and latterly proteomics of vector insects and their pathogens, researchers are using new approaches and our knowledge is rapidly increasing. The second edition of this volume very much reflects these advances. The editor, William Marquardt, has assembled a team of section editors to oversee the production of 57 short chapters, divided into 7 parts. With a few exceptions, these experts are drawn from the USA, a reflection no doubt of the history of the first edition which was produced to accompany the Biology of Vector Disease course, given at Colorado State University. The text is aimed at post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers, working in a range of areas associated with vector biology and vector-borne diseases. It provides an excellent opportunity to obtain an initial overview of a new area or to dip into a field that may be peripheral to the topic under investigation.

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Predicting the effect of climate change on African trypanosomiasis: integrating epidemiology with parasite and vector biology

Journal of The Royal Society Interface ◽

10.1098/rsif.2011.0654 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 9 (70) ◽

pp. 817-830 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Sean Moore ◽

Sourya Shrestha ◽

Kyle W. Tomlinson ◽

Holly Vuong

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Disease Transmission ◽

Transmission Model ◽

Future Research ◽

African Trypanosomiasis ◽

Vector Biology ◽

Vector Ecology ◽

Large Shift ◽

Vector Borne Diseases ◽

Vector Borne

Climate warming over the next century is expected to have a large impact on the interactions between pathogens and their animal and human hosts. Vector-borne diseases are particularly sensitive to warming because temperature changes can alter vector development rates, shift their geographical distribution and alter transmission dynamics. For this reason, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), a vector-borne disease of humans and animals, was recently identified as one of the 12 infectious diseases likely to spread owing to climate change. We combine a variety of direct effects of temperature on vector ecology, vector biology and vector–parasite interactions via a disease transmission model and extrapolate the potential compounding effects of projected warming on the epidemiology of African trypanosomiasis. The model predicts that epidemics can occur when mean temperatures are between 20.7°C and 26.1°C. Our model does not predict a large-range expansion, but rather a large shift of up to 60 per cent in the geographical extent of the range. The model also predicts that 46–77 million additional people may be at risk of exposure by 2090. Future research could expand our analysis to include other environmental factors that influence tsetse populations and disease transmission such as humidity, as well as changes to human, livestock and wildlife distributions. The modelling approach presented here provides a framework for using the climate-sensitive aspects of vector and pathogen biology to predict changes in disease prevalence and risk owing to climate change.

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Mapping of courses on vector biology and vector-borne diseases systems: time for a worldwide effort

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ◽

10.1590/0074-02760160295 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 111 (11) ◽

pp. 717-719 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jérôme Casas ◽

Claudio Lazzari ◽

Teresita Insausti ◽

Pascal Launois ◽

Florence Fouque

Keyword(s):

Vector Biology ◽

Vector Borne Diseases ◽

Vector Borne

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Medically Important Vector Borne Disease Control-Botanical Plant Extract Trials

Research in Pharmacy and Health Sciences ◽

10.32463/rphs.2018.v04i04.20 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 513

Author(s):

Rakhshan .

Keyword(s):

Disease Control ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Major Public Health Problem ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Development Of Resistance ◽

Vector Borne ◽

Synthetic Pesticides ◽

High Level ◽

Continuous Use ◽

Chemical Pesticides

Mosquitoes are vectors of many pathogens which causes serious human diseases like Malaria, Filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Yellow fever and Zika virus which constitute a major public health problem globally. Mosquito borne diseases cause high level of economic impact all over the world and result in millions of death every year. They infect around 700,000,000 people annually worldwide and 40,000,000 only in India. The continuous use of synthetic pesticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance, toxic effect on human health, environmental pollution and addition to these, its adverse effects can be observed on non-target organisms. Synthetic chemical pesticides have been proved to be effective, but overall in last 5 decades indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides against vector borne disease control have originated several ecological issues due to their residual accumulation and development of resistance in target vectors and their chronic effects.

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