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PARASITES & VECTORS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3392-0
Keywords
Endectocides; Ivermectin; Malaria control; Anopheles farauti
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- National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Programme [1037304]
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BackgroundOutdoor, early-biting, zoophagic behaviours by Anopheles farauti (s.s.) can compromise the effectiveness of bed nets for malaria control. In the Western Pacific region, pigs and dogs represent significant alternative blood sources for mosquitoes. Treating these animals with endectocides may impact mosquito survival and complement control measures. This hypothesis was explored using membrane feeding assays (MFAs), direct feeds on treated pigs, pharmacokinetic analyses and a transmission model.ResultsIvermectin was 375-fold more mosquitocidal than moxidectin (24h LC50=17.8 ng/ml vs 6.7 mu g/ml) in MFAs, and reduced mosquito fecundity by >50% at 5ng/ml. Treatment of pigs with subcutaneous doses of 0.6 mg/kg ivermectin caused 100% mosquito mortality 8 days after administration. Lethal effects persisted for up to 15 days after administration (75% death within 10 days).ConclusionThe application of these empirical data to a unique malaria transmission model that used a three-host system (humans, pigs and dogs) predicts that the application of ivermectin will cause a significant reduction in the entomological inoculation rate (EIR=100 to 0.35). However, this is contingent on local malaria vectors sourcing a significant proportion of their blood meals from pigs. This provides significant insights on the benefits of deploying endectocides alongside long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) to address residual malaria transmission.
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