title: [Culex pipiens fatigans Wiedemann in tropical Africa: its importance and its control (author's transl)].
abstract: Improvement in communications, unchecked urbanization and use of inadequate insecticides have promoted widespreading and proliferation of C.p. fatigans in tropical Africa. This mosquito is a pest for man but also a main vector of Bancroftian filariasis. Various sanitation measures and insecticidal control are now available to destroy it; these control methods are indicated.
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex; D005368:Filariasis / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007305:Insecticide Resistance; D007306:Insecticides; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods*; D014958:Wuchereria bancrofti
chemical_list: D007306:Insecticides
vernacular_title: Culex pipiens fatigans Wiedemann, en Afrique tropicale: son importance et son contrôle.