BACKGROUND: Community mobilization is often respected as a powerful tool in ensuring the effective controlling of dengue via promoting effective and sustainable dengue vector control strategies. The current study attempts ...

BACKGROUND: It is believed that Aedes albopictus, one of the dengue vectors in Sri Lanka can be controlled using Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) when integrated with other conventional control methods. The objective of this ...

BACKGROUND: Malaria, dengue, and other tropical diseases carried by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas have greatly affected life expectancy, infant mortality, quality of life and work productivity. Essential ...

INTRODUCTION: Dengue is the most significant mosquito-borne infectious disease in Sri Lanka, causing more than 35,000 cases annually for last five years. The second highest prevalence of dengue was reported from the District ...

BACKGROUND: The maternal transformation of Wolbachia (Wb) to Aedes mosquitoes is an approach that has been widely used in Aedes mosquito population control strategies in the integrated dengue vector control efforts. This ...

BACKGROUND: Pineapple plantations are believed to have contributed to the transmission of dengue fever in pineapple growing areas in Sri Lanka. Hence, there is a need to introduce effective control methods to reduce dengue ...

BACKGROUND: In areas where dengue transmission is high, space spraying against adult Aedes sp. is practiced to reduce the density of infected mosquitoes and thereby reduce transmission within a very short time. Repeated ...