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MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 172-174Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00725.x
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Simulium sanctipauli; control; Djodji form; elimination; larviciding; onchocerciasis
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Cytotaxonomic identifications of larvae of members of the Simulium damnosum Theobald (Diptera: Simuliidae) complex collected in forest zones of southeast Ghana and southwest Togo between 1977 and 1996 showed that the Djodji form of Simulium sanctipauli Vajime & Dunbar, a vector of onchocerciasis, was eliminated in 1988 by larvicide operations conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) in West Africa. No members of the form were identified amongst 997 larvae collected up to 8 years after systematic control operations began in February 1988. The results are discussed in relation to estimates of the numbers of samples required to certify elimination and the possibility that other members of the S. damnosum complex were also eliminated by the OCP.
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