[Malaria in the Republic of Djibouti. Strategy for control using a biological antilarval campaign: indigenous larvivorous fishes (Aphanius dispar) and bacterial toxins].
The authors take stock of the present situation of malaria in the Republic of Djibouti which, after several decades of silence, seems to have been reintroduced at the beginning of the seventies. Actually it is hypo-endemic malaria with Plasmodium falciparum of which the only vector seems to be Anopheles arabiensis, gambiae complex. The specificity of the larvae nests allows a control strategy based on the only treatment of larvae sites by biological control: larvivorous fishes (Aphanius Dispar) and in addition the pin-point use of bacterial toxins as a complementary measure. The first results obtained in the rural zones around the capital are encouraging and permit to envisage the extensions of such a strategy to the whole of the territory of the Republic.
D000351:Africa, Eastern; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005399:Fishes; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods*; D010572:Pest Control, Biological / Q000379:methods*; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum
D001427:Bacterial Toxins
Le paludisme en république de Djibouti. Stratégie de contrôle par la lutte antilarvaire biologique: poissons larvivores autochtones (Aphanius dispar) et toxines bactériennes.