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Disease Vectors
by insects, ticks, and other arthropods and mechanical vectors (vehicles). Also included within the scope of part one are the development, implementation and evaluation of intervention strategies to prevent, control or eliminate arthropod disease vector viral hazards and associated risks. Part two of the Environmental Health Insights Disease Vectors supplement focuses on bacterial agents transm...
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Effective containment of arthropod vectors of infectious diseases is necessary to prevent transmission of pathogens by released, infected vectors and to prevent vectors that escape from establishing populations that subsequently contribute to increased disease. Although rare, past releases illustrate what can go wrong and justify the need for guidelines that minimize risks. An overview of recom...
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Chemical control of Chagas disease vectors appears to be the best practical way to reduce the incidence of the disease. DDT was initially tested in the 1950s for the campaigns of control of Chagas disease vectors. Its low level of effectiveness against triatomine caused the failure of these control actions. HCH was then introduced in the southern cone and Dieldrin in the north of Latinoamerica....
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ginning as a basis for more detaile.d conside.rati~ns ~ith specific types of compounds. SpecIal attentIon IS gIven to the interactions of organophosphates with cholinesterase and the ion permeability of insect nerve, areas of special interest to the author and of general importance. The author has sifted the literature into firm and tentative findings, fact, and opinion. Metabolic pathways are ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/224999b0