Abstract
Malaria is an acute febrile infectious disease that is important in public health. In Brazil, there is a high incidence of the disease in the Amazon region, where 99% of the country’s cases occur, wherein the disease might be severe. In this study, the use of Bacillus sphaericus strain 2362, entomopathogenic bacteria, for the control of malaria vectors was reviewed by surveying scientific articles in the Scielo, Medline and PubMed databases. The selected articles revealed that there is a shortage of studies on the effectiveness of B. sphaericus in the control of Anopheles in Brazil.
Highlights
Malaria is an acute febrile infectious disease that is important in public health
Malaria vectors belong to the order Diptera, infraorder Culicomorpha, family Culicidae, and genus Anopheles.This genus comprises 517 species, of which 70 are medically important, with 54 of these species occurring in Brazil [10,11,12]
This review article aims to present an overview of the use of the entomopathogenic biolarvicide, B. sphaericus strain 2362, in malaria vector control and to report its applicability and effectiveness in Brazil
Summary
Malaria is an acute febrile infectious disease that is important in public health. It is caused by protozoa transmitted by mosquito vectors. Adulticide activity, environmental management, and biological larvicides in breeding sites are less efficient methods of vector control [3,15,19]. Studies on the effectiveness of Bacillus sphaericus strain 2362 against Anopheles spp. larvae under field conditions are rare because it is a fairly new vector control method.
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