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SUBMITTER: Pleydell DRJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6541632 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communications biology 20190529
Various mosquito control methods use factory raised males to suppress vector densities. But the efficiency of these methods is currently insufficient to prevent epidemics of arbovirus diseases such as dengue, chikungunya or Zika. Suggestions that the sterile insect technique (SIT) could be "boosted" by applying biopesticides to sterile males remain unquantified. Here, we assess mathematically the gains to SIT for <i>Aedes</i> control of either: boosting with the pupicide pyriproxifen (BSIT); or, ...[more]