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[The chemical control of disease vectors. Evaluation of new insecticides. Operational insecticides. New insecticides (author's transl)]. 1978

G Quelennec

The chemical control of disease vectors which has been very successful during about 15 years is now faced with some difficulties due to the resistance of insects to the insecticides, to the decreasing number of candidate insecticides, to the increase of their price and to the legal restrictions concerning their safe use and their environmental inocuity. Since 1960, W.H.O. has carried out an evaluation programme to define the properties of new insecticides and to access their usefulness for public health. Through this programme several alternative insecticides have been selected and are now used in vector control operations. Although research continues on organophosphorous compounds and carbamates, it also includes the promising groups of pyrethroids and insect growth regulators. The present trend of vector control is to integrate various control techniques and to limit the use of insecticides to the control of the epidemiologically dangerous part of the vector population. This approach might prevent or delay the development of resistance.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007300	Insect Control	The reduction or regulation of the population of noxious, destructive, or dangerous insects through chemical, biological, or other means.	Control, Insect
D007303	Insect Vectors	Insects that transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.	Insect Vector,Vector, Insect,Vectors, Insect
D007306	Insecticides	Pesticides designed to control insects that are harmful to man. The insects may be directly harmful, as those acting as disease vectors, or indirectly harmful, as destroyers of crops, food products, or textile fabrics.	Insecticide
D007605	Juvenile Hormones	Compounds, either natural or synthetic, which block development of the growing insect.	Insect Growth Regulator,Insect Growth Regulators,Juvenile Hormone,Growth Regulators, Insect,Regulators, Insect Growth,Growth Regulator, Insect,Hormone, Juvenile,Hormones, Juvenile,Regulator, Insect Growth
D009946	Organothiophosphorus Compounds	Compounds containing carbon-phosphorus bonds in which the phosphorus component is also bonded to one or more sulfur atoms. Many of these compounds function as CHOLINERGIC AGENTS and as INSECTICIDES.	Compounds, Organothiophosphorus
D011722	Pyrethrins	The active insecticidal constituent of CHRYSANTHEMUM CINERARIIFOLIUM flowers. Pyrethrin I is the pyretholone ester of chrysanthemummonocarboxylic acid and pyrethrin II is the pyretholone ester of chrysanthemumdicarboxylic acid monomethyl ester.	Pyrethrin,Pyrethroid,Pyrethroids
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001179	Arthropod Vectors	Arthropods, other than insects and arachnids, which transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.	Arthropod Vector,Vector, Arthropod,Vectors, Arthropod
D014944	World Health Organization	A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.	Organization, World Health,WHO