Advanced search
Start date
Betweenand

Increased surveillance and entomological monitoring through the association of chemical attractions directed to Diptera families: Culicidae and Psychodidae, vectors of diseases

Grant number: 18/23161-3
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Effective date (Start): December 01, 2018
Effective date (End): May 31, 2021
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
Principal Investigator:Vera Lucia Fonseca de Camargo Neves
Grantee:Byara Freitas Guedes Oliveira
Host Institution: Superintendência de Controle de Endemias (SUCEN). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Associated research grant:17/50345-5 - Institutional development plan in research and technology for vector surveillance and control of the Superintendência do Controle de Endemias - SUCEN (PDIp), AP.PDIP

Abstract

In recent decades, the epidemiological situation of vector-borne diseases has become progressively worse, as well as the introduction of new diseases, as a consequence of the alteration of the environment due to anthropogenic activities, which led to the adaptation and dispersion of originally wild urban areas. Thus, entomological surveillance methods should incorporate new surveillance technologies to allow for the attainment of risk indicators and better control of vector species in a timely manner. The use of chemical attractants is one of the prerequisites for improving insect traps, seeking to increase the sensitivity of these equipment. In order to do so, the target species will be created in the laboratory and tested for various chemical attractions in the market, as well as their association, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), 1-octen-3-ol (octenol), lactic acid (Lurex®), phenols and butanone, acetic acid among others. The tests will be performed in a controlled situation using olfactometers and later coupled in electric traps exposed in loosening rooms. The analysis of the results will be given by comparing the frequency of specimens attracted due to the exposure of certain attractiveness or associations between them and also by the optimum trap density with the addition of the selected attractive in a controlled situation.

News published in Agência FAPESP Newsletter about the scholarship:
Articles published in other media outlets (0 total):
More itemsLess items
VEICULO: TITULO (DATA)
VEICULO: TITULO (DATA)

Scientific publications
(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
OLIVEIRA, BYARA FREITAS GUEDES; DE FATIMA DOMINGOS, MARIA; OVALLOS, FREDY GALVIS; DE CAMARGO-NEVES, VERA LUCIA FONSECA. Updating Ecological and Behavioral Aspects of the Sandfly Fauna in the Vale do Ribeira Region, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. INSECTS, v. 12, n. 11, . (17/50345-5, 18/23161-3)

Please report errors in scientific publications list by writing to: cdi@fapesp.br.