Autodissemination of Pyriproxyfen as Novel Strategy to Control Dengue Outbreaks: A Review

Abstract

The new emergence and re-emergence of arbovirus infections vectored by Aedes mosquitoes have been spread across Southeast Asia, Central Africa, United States, tropical Oceania and become a major of public health concerns. These arbovirus diseases found to have a similar vector, symptoms of the diseases and environments. The situation has become complicated without any specific vaccine or treatment for the diseases. As far as we concern, vector control is the best defense with many challenges, a scattered breeding site and biological behavioral sometimes, more difficult to control. Herein, we present a review of studies on current techniques proposed to combat arbovirus infections vectored by Aedes mosquitoes. A crucial gap in a vector control program is the inability to eliminate and destroy the cryptic breeding site by using conventional control methods. The idea and proper concept of using mosquitoes to bring insecticide to their oviposition site had been getting more interest in people to explore. Autodissemination is a self-delivery technique by manipulating the behavior of mosquitoes, carrying the insecticide and disseminate to cryptic breeding sites. This technique has shown a promising result in some countries and can be considered as additional tools in a vector control program

Evaluating the Potential of Pyriproxyfen Dissemination using Mosquito Home System against Aedes albopictus at a Dengue Hotspot Area

“…Autodissemination approaches using pyriproxyfen have been widely used in mosquito-borne diseases control. This method uses the concept of pulling (the ability to attract mosquitoes into autodissemination stations) and release (mosquitoes exposed to pyriproxyfen may spread the particles to other locations) to control mosquito populations in the field (Liang et al 2019;Ngesom et al 2020). This strategy has produced promising results by controlling various mosquito populations, including Ae.…”