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Table 3.3.
Potential of emerging technologies based on success criteria.
Field
effi cacy
Regulatory
acceptance
Operational
ease of use
Supply
chain
Commercial
interest
Emerging technology
Potential and niche
Impregnated fabrics
(not mosquito nets)
?
(
)
(
)
Aedes
and some
Anopheles
Polystyrene beads
?
Culex
in pit latrines
Ovitrap
(X)
(X)
(
)
(X)
Inferior to lethal ovitrap
Lethal adult trap
(
)
(X)
Limited
Aedes
infestations
where labour plentiful and
homeowners cooperate
Insecticidal paint
(X)
(
)
(
)
Potential retail indoor
application
Sugar baits
(
)
Areas without fl owering
plants. Exophilic
mosquitoes and in
combination with
mosquito nets
Entomopathogenic
fungi
?
(
)
(
)
?
?
Endophilic
Anopheles
Laser
?
(
)
X
(
)
(X)
Practicality and cost in
question
Auto-dissemination
systems
(
)
(
)
(
)
(
)
(
)
Container breeders (
Aedes
)
Nematodes
(X)
(
)
(X)
X
Inadequate control and
diffi culties with storage
Copepods
(
)
(
)
(
)
(X)
Aedes
programmes
with
high community
compliance and
permanent water
containers
Densovirus
(X)
(
)
(X)
(X)
(X)
If viable then
Aedes
Changing water
quality
?
(
)
(
)
(
)
(
)
Culex
in stagnant or polluted
water bodies and sewage
outfall
Classical Sterile
Insect Technique
(X)
(
)
(
)
(
)
(X)
Irradiation damage and
diffi cult to commercialize
Release of Insects
with Dominant
Lethality (RIDL)
(
)
(
)
(
)
Keeping numbers of specifi c
mosquito species low or
eliminating them from a
defi ned area
Wolbachia
(
)
(
)
(
)
(
)
?
Reducing ability of
mosquitoes to transmit
disease but not yet
demonstrated in fi eld and
fi eld stability unproven.
Also potential as sterile
male release technique
but accidental female
releases would cause
problems
Other genetic
systems
(
)
(X)
(
)
(
)
(X)
Questions over acceptability
to regulators and to the
public. Early stage
research
Human drug (e.g.
ivermectin)
(
)
?
?
With ACT malaria drug
treatment, high malaria
transmission or in
eradication programmes
Spatial Decision
Support Systems
(
)
N/A
(
)
Wide potential dependent
on fl exibility, effectiveness,
and ease of use
Strongly meets criterion;
Meets criterion; (
) Probably capable of meeting criterion; ? Uncertain; (X) Probably does
not meet criterion; X Does not meet criterion.
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