Abstract

ESTEVEZ ESPINOSA, Nairys; GARCIA MEDINA, Erlán  and  DIEGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Lorenzo. Implementation of sustainable strategies in the control of vectors at the Medical University of Camagüey. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp. 1-9. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: nowadays the great dispersion, incidence and seriousness of many diseases transmitted by vectors, cause a dangerous increase of them in several regions of the world. Objective: to evaluate the impact of the strategies implemented at the Medical University of Camagüey, through the behavior of abundance and distribution of species of vectors detected. Methods: a sanitary intervention study at the Medical University of Camagüey was carried out, from October 2004 to April 2007. To the surveys, techniques described by the Ministry of Health Public of Cuba were applied. For mollusks a copper colander was used, removing the arena-muddy substrates and adjacent vegetation, as well as manual collections with forceps, by means of captures by unit of effort without replacement. It was coordinated with the administration of the faculty the fulfilment of antivectorial actions, fundamentally of environmental manipulation. Results: initially 17 vectorial species were identified; the most abundant and varied were culicides. In the final stage only prevailed six species of medical relevance (76.48% of reduction), with an important reduction in the group of hematophagous mosquitoes. Conclusions: several species related with important diseases of vectorial transmission in urbane, rural and coastal environments were detected in the Medical University, favored initially by environmental, operational, entomologic and human factors, what was reverted with the implementation of coordinated measures of monitoring, control and vectorial surveillance, activities that had been increased with students, workers´ and community environmentalist education.

Keywords : VECTOR CONTROL; MOLLUSCA; STRATEGIES; MOSQUITO CONTROL.

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