ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

1470 United States and Peruvian Navies collaborate to provide improved public health measures against dengue fever vector, Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae), in Lima, Peru

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 11:44 AM
Room D3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Roxanne G. Burrus , Department of Entomology, US Naval Medical Research Unit #6, Callao 2, Lima, Peru
Manuel J. Larru , Naval Hospital, Centro Médico Naval (CEMENA), Callao, Lima, Peru
Victor Zorrilla-Cieza , Department of Entomology, US Naval Medical Research Unit #6, Callao 2, Lima, Peru
Carmen Flores-Mendoza , U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, Callao, Peru
Jorge O. Alarcón Villaverde , Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of San Marcos, Callao 2, Lima, Peru
Roberto Fernández-Loayza , Department of Entomology, US Naval Medical Research Unit #6, Callao 2, Lima, Peru
Sofia Gonzalez-Collantes , Naval Hospital, Centro Médico Naval (CEMENA), Callao, Lima, Peru
Dengue fever is a serious public health and military disease in Perú. Aedes aegypti, the primary mosquito vector of the four dengue serotypes, is present throughout Perú, and was found breeding on the Peruvian Naval Hospital Base in Callao District of Lima. There are limited entomology training programs available in Perú to teach identification, surveillance and control of Aedes aegypti: most training occurs as on-the-job training of medical personnel of the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MOH) and Institutes of Health (INS). The Peruvian Navy deploys its active-duty nurses throughout the country, so that those personnel are stationed in remote areas that are endemic “hot-spots” for dengue fever. To increase country-wide control of Aedes aegypti, and to reduce incidence of dengue fever, a collaboration between the Peruvian Naval Hospital Medical Center (CEMENA), the University of San Marcos Institute of Tropical Medicine (UNMSM ITM), and the United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. Six (NAMRU-6) was established to provide training to Peruvian Naval Nurses immediately prior to their deployments. This study presents data of mosquitoes collected during the two-day training course that was provided for the Peruvian Naval nurses.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.59212

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