Insecticide-treated house screening protects against Zika-infected Aedes aegypti in Merida, Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The integration of house-screening and long-lasting insecticidal nets, known as insecticide-treated screening (ITS), can provide simple, safe, and low-tech Aedes aegypti control. Cluster randomised controlled trials in two endemic localities for Ae. aegypti of south Mexico, showed that ITS conferred both, immediate and sustained (~2 yr) impact on indoor-female Ae. aegypti infestations. Such encouraging results require further validation with studies quantifying more epidemiologically-related endpoints, including arbovirus infection in Ae. aegypti. We evaluated the efficacy of protecting houses with ITS on Ae. aegypti infestation and arbovirus infection during a Zika outbreak in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

Methodology/principal findings

A two-arm cluster-randomised co

SUBMITTER: Manrique-Saide P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853519 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature