%0 Journal Article
%T Eficacia del control de larvas de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) con peces larv¨ªvoros
%A Fimia Duarte
%A Rigoberto
%A Castillo Cuenca
%A Julio C
%A Cepero Rodr¨ªguez
%A Omelio
%A Corona Santander
%A Edgar
%A Gonz¨¢lez Gonz¨¢lez
%A Ram¨®n
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical
%D 2009
%I Centro Nacional de Informaci¨®n de Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X objective: a cohort study was conducted in people¡äs councils in b¨¢ez and guaracabulla located in placetas municipality, villa clara province, for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of three river fish called gambusia punctata poey, 1854, gambusia puncticulata poey, 1854 y poecilia reticulata peter, 1895 in the control of mosquito larvae inside water reservoirs used by the population. methods: the study began in april 2006 and ended may, 2007; the selected water tanks were placed inside and outside the houses) since they were more easy to be evaluated. the sample covered 1 740 tanks divided into 2 groups and evaluated for one year. results: the risk of finding mosquito foci was higher in the group of reservoirs non-exposed to the action of fish; this difference allowed stating that 8 mosquito foci were prevented per every 100 reservoirs treated with fish. conclusions: larvivorous fish are an excellent choice to treat cullicidae larval populations existing in water tanks and also a protective factor against incidence of mosquito foci.
%K cullicidae control
%K cohort study
%K gambusia punctata
%K gambusia puncticulata
%K larvivorous fish
%K poecilia reticulata.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0375-07602009000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en