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Fipronil And Ivermectin Treatment Of Cattle Reduced The Survival And Ovarian Development Of Field-Collection Anopheles Albimanus In A Pilot Trial Conducted In Northern Belize, Staci M. Dreyer, Donovan Leiva, Marla Magana, Marie Pott, Jonathan Kay, Alvaro Cruz, Nicole L. Achee, John P. Grieco, Jefferson A. Vaughan

Biology Faculty Publications

Background: Most malaria vector control programmes rely on indoor residual spraying of insecticides and insecticide-treated bed nets. This is efective against vector species that feed indoors at night and rest inside the house afterwards. In Central America, malaria vectors have diferent behaviours and are typically exophagic (i.e., bite outdoors), exophilic (i.e., remain outdoors after feeding), and zoophagic (i.e., as likely to feed on non-humans as humans). Thus, malaria elimination in Central America may require additional tactics. This pilot study investigated whether commercially-available products used to treat livestock for ticks could also be used to kill and/or sterilize zoophagic malaria vectors …