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Promising new tools to fight Aedes mosquitoes

Two new tools for suppressing Aedes aegypti mosquito populations have been recommended for pilot testing. Carefully designed trials will be needed to see whether they actually reduce disease as well. Andréia Azevedo Soares reports.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516632
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.020816
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spelling pubmed-49699932016-08-11 Promising new tools to fight Aedes mosquitoes Bull World Health Organ News Two new tools for suppressing Aedes aegypti mosquito populations have been recommended for pilot testing. Carefully designed trials will be needed to see whether they actually reduce disease as well. Andréia Azevedo Soares reports. World Health Organization 2016-08-01 2016-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4969993/ /pubmed/27516632 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.020816 Text en (c) 2016 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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Promising new tools to fight Aedes mosquitoes
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title_full Promising new tools to fight Aedes mosquitoes
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title_short Promising new tools to fight Aedes mosquitoes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516632
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.020816