title: A critical assessment of vector control for dengue prevention.
abstract: Recently, the Vaccines to Vaccinate (v2V) initiative was reconfigured into the Partnership for Dengue Control (PDC), a multi-sponsored and independent initiative. This redirection is consistent with the growing consensus among the dengue-prevention community that no single intervention will be sufficient to control dengue disease. The PDC's expectation is that when an effective dengue virus (DENV) vaccine is commercially available, the public health community will continue to rely on vector control because the two strategies complement and enhance one another. Although the concept of integrated intervention for dengue prevention is gaining increasingly broader acceptance, to date, no consensus has been reached regarding the details of how and what combination of approaches can be most effectively implemented to manage disease. To fill that gap, the PDC proposed a three step process: (1) a critical assessment of current vector control tools and those under development, (2) outlining a research agenda for determining, in a definitive way, what existing tools work best, and (3) determining how to combine the best vector control options, which have systematically been defined in this process, with DENV vaccines. To address the first step, the PDC convened a meeting of international experts during November 2013 in Washington, DC, to critically assess existing vector control interventions and tools under development. This report summarizes those deliberations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America.
authors.forename: Nicole L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Achee
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: T Alex
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.affiliation: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Reiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America; United States Naval Medical Research Unit, No. 6, Iquitos, Peru.
authors.forename: Amy C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.affiliation: College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ritchie
authors.affiliation: Emerging Infectious Diseases Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore; Partnership for Dengue Control, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Duane J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Gubler
authors.affiliation: Partnership for Dengue Control, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Remy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teyssou
authors.affiliation: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America; Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America; Partnership for Dengue Control, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000821:virology*; D000818:Animals; D003715:Dengue / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003716:Dengue Virus / Q000502:physiology*; D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000821:virology*; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health