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Suppression of Aedes mosquito populations with the boosted sterile insect technique in tropical and Mediterranean urban areas.
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- Field implementation of the sterile insect technique against Aedes aegypti in Recife, Brazil: operational challenges and impact of release frequency on vector dynamics.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Article
- Suppression of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) populations using the boosted sterile insect technique in Greece.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Distribution of Larval Habitats and Efficiency of Various Trap Settings to Monitor SympatricInsects · 2025Article
- Comparison of the standard and boosted sterile insect techniques for the suppression of Aedes albopictus populations under semi-field conditions.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
- Optimizing larval mass-rearing techniques for Aedes mosquitoes: enhancing production and quality for genetic control strategies.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
- Current status of the sterile insect technique for the suppression of mosquito populations on a global scale.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2024Review
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Aedes mosquitoes are the vectors of dengue viruses and other arboviruses, which threaten billions of people all over the world. The boosted sterile insect technique (boosted SIT) is a version of SIT in which irradiated sterile males also transmit a biocide to immature stages. We describe three field trials that were run in 2021: one against Aedes aegypti in La Reunion and two against Aedes albopictus in Spain, each using pyriproxyfen as a biocide. The relative density of adults (compared to their density in control sites: without sterile male release) decreased from 1.00 to 0.09, 95% credible interval [0.06, 0.15] (La Reunion, July) and to 0.02 [0.01, 0.03] and 0.11 [0.08, 0.16] (Spain, July and October). The success rate, corresponding to the proportion of traps with suppression greater than 80%, ranged from 0.43 to 0.71 in La Reunion, from 0.26 to 1.00, and from 0.50 to 0.70 in Spain. In Spain, suppression with boosted SIT was higher than with non-boosted SIT, in 2020 and 2022. This work is in line with the predictions of the model of a better efficacy of boosted SIT compared to SIT, together with partial protection from invasion of treated areas by fertile females, paving the way for larger-scale field trials.
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