Insecticide resistance in African Anopheles mosquitoes: a worsening situation that needs urgent action to maintain malaria control

H Ranson, N Lissenden - Trends in parasitology, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria control is reliant on insecticides to control the mosquito vector. As efforts to control
the disease have intensified, so has the selection pressure on mosquitoes to develop …

Piperonyl butoxide (PBO) combined with pyrethroids in insecticide‐treated nets to prevent malaria in Africa

M Chaplin, L Choi, H Ranson - Cochrane Database of …, 2021 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Pyrethroid long‐lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have been important in the
large reductions in malaria cases in Africa, but insecticide resistance in Anopheles …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced dengue incidence following deployments of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: a quasi-experimental trial using controlled …

C Indriani, W Tantowijoyo, E Rancès, B Andari… - Gates open …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Ae. aegypti mosquitoes stably transfected with the intracellular bacterium
Wolbachia pipientis (wMel strain) have been deployed for biocontrol of dengue and related …

[HTML][HTML] Increased pyrethroid resistance in malaria vectors and decreased bed net effectiveness, Burkina Faso

KH Toé, CM Jones, S N'fale, HM Ismail… - Emerging infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Malaria control is dependent on insecticides. Increases in prevalence of insecticide
resistance in malaria vectors across Africa are well-documented. However, few attempts …

The impact of pyrethroid resistance on the efficacy of insecticide-treated bed nets against African anopheline mosquitoes: systematic review and meta-analysis

C Strode, S Donegan, P Garner, AA Enayati… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Pyrethroid insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) help contribute to reducing
malaria deaths in Africa, but their efficacy is threatened by insecticide resistance in some …

Interventions that effectively target Anopheles funestus mosquitoes could significantly improve control of persistent malaria transmission in south–eastern Tanzania

EW Kaindoa, NS Matowo, HS Ngowo, G Mkandawile… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Malaria is transmitted by many Anopheles species whose proportionate contributions vary
across settings. We re-assessed the roles of Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus …

The need for practical insecticide-resistance guidelines to effectively inform mosquito-borne disease control programs

A Namias, NB Jobe, KP Paaijmans, S Huijben - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Monitoring local mosquito populations for insecticide resistance is critical for effective vector-
borne disease control. However, widely used phenotypic assays, which are designed to …

Associations between substance use disorders and suicide or suicide attempts in people with mental illness: a Danish nation‐wide, prospective, register‐based study …

MLD Østergaard, M Nordentoft, C Hjorthøj - Addiction, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To estimate and test associations between substance use disorders (SUDs) and both
completed suicides and suicide attempts in a population with severe mental illness. Design …

Implementation of the global plan for insecticide resistance management in malaria vectors: progress, challenges and the way forward

AP Mnzava, TB Knox, EA Temu, A Trett, C Fornadel… - Malaria journal, 2015 - Springer
In recent years, there has been an increase in resistance of malaria vectors to insecticides,
particularly to pyrethroids which are widely used in insecticide-treated nets. The Global Plan …

Inferring the epidemiological benefit of indoor vector control interventions against malaria from mosquito data

E Sherrard-Smith, C Ngufor, A Sanou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The cause of malaria transmission has been known for over a century but it is still unclear
whether entomological measures are sufficiently reliable to inform policy decisions in human …