TY - JOUR
T1 - Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa
T2 - an introduction
AU - Knols, Bart G.J.
AU - Farenhorst, Marit
AU - Andriessen, Rob
AU - Snetselaar, Janneke
AU - Suer, Remco A.
AU - Osinga, Anne J.
AU - Knols, Johan M.H.
AU - Deschietere, Johan
AU - Ng’habi, Kija R.
AU - Lyimo, Issa N.
AU - Kessy, Stella T.
AU - Mayagaya, Valeriana S.
AU - Sperling, Sergej
AU - Cordel, Michael
AU - Sternberg, Eleanore D.
AU - Hartmann, Patrick
AU - Mnyone, Ladslaus L.
AU - Rose, Andreas
AU - Thomas, Matthew B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Marcel Verweij (Netherlands), Owen Jones (UK), David Malone (UK), and Rickard Ignell (Sweden). We are strongly indebted to this group for their expertise, advice and generous support. We also acknowledge the excellent guidance, encouragement and support from the EU Project’s scientific officer, Inmaculada Peñas Jimenez.
Funding Information:
This article is the prelude to a series of articles on eave tubes as a novel approach for malaria vector control. This work was part of the mosquito contamination device (MCD) project (www.mcdproject.org) that was supported by European Union Seventh Framework Programme Grant 306105, FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1. Much of the development of eave tubes was guided by close interaction with the project’s External Advisory Board that consisted of Greg Devine (Chair, Australia), Leonard Mboera (Tanzania), Steve Lindsay (UK), Michelle Helinski (Netherlands), Cor van der Weele (Netherlands),
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author(s).
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In spite of massive progress in the control of African malaria since the turn of the century, there is a clear and recognized need for additional tools beyond long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides, to progress towards elimination. Moreover, widespread and intensifying insecticide resistance requires alternative control agents and delivery systems to enable development of effective insecticide resistance management strategies. This series of articles presents a novel concept for malaria vector control, the ‘eave tube’, which may fulfil these important criteria. From its conceptualization to laboratory and semi-field testing, to demonstration of potential for implementation, the stepwise development of this new vector control approach is described. These studies suggest eave tubes (which comprise a novel way of delivering insecticides plus screening to make the house more ‘mosquito proof’) could be a viable, cost-effective, and acceptable control tool for endophilic and endophagic anophelines, and possibly other (nuisance) mosquitoes. The approach could be applicable in a wide variety of housing in sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly beyond, for vectors that use the eave as their primary house entry point. The results presented in these articles were generated during an EU-FP7 funded project, the mosquito contamination device (MCD) project, which ran between 2012 and 2015. This was a collaborative project undertaken by vector biologists, product developers, modellers, materials scientists, and entrepreneurs from five different countries.
AB - In spite of massive progress in the control of African malaria since the turn of the century, there is a clear and recognized need for additional tools beyond long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides, to progress towards elimination. Moreover, widespread and intensifying insecticide resistance requires alternative control agents and delivery systems to enable development of effective insecticide resistance management strategies. This series of articles presents a novel concept for malaria vector control, the ‘eave tube’, which may fulfil these important criteria. From its conceptualization to laboratory and semi-field testing, to demonstration of potential for implementation, the stepwise development of this new vector control approach is described. These studies suggest eave tubes (which comprise a novel way of delivering insecticides plus screening to make the house more ‘mosquito proof’) could be a viable, cost-effective, and acceptable control tool for endophilic and endophagic anophelines, and possibly other (nuisance) mosquitoes. The approach could be applicable in a wide variety of housing in sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly beyond, for vectors that use the eave as their primary house entry point. The results presented in these articles were generated during an EU-FP7 funded project, the mosquito contamination device (MCD) project, which ran between 2012 and 2015. This was a collaborative project undertaken by vector biologists, product developers, modellers, materials scientists, and entrepreneurs from five different countries.
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U2 - 10.1186/s12936-016-1452-x
DO - 10.1186/s12936-016-1452-x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27515306
AN - SCOPUS:84992036602
SN - 1475-2875
VL - 15
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Malaria journal
JF - Malaria journal
IS - 1
M1 - 404
ER -