The additional benefit of residual spraying and insecticide-treated curtains for dengue control over current best practice in Cuba: Evaluation of disease incidence in a cluster randomized trial in a low burden setting with intensive routine control.

• Main Authors: Maria Eugenia Toledo (Author), Veerle Vanlerberghe (Author), Julio Popa Rosales (Author), Mayelin Mirabal (Author), Pedro Cabrera (Author), Viviana Fonseca (Author), Tania Gómez Padrón (Author), Mirtha Pérez Menzies (Author), Domingo Montada (Author), Patrick Van der Stuyft (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Aedes control interventions are considered the cornerstone of dengue control programmes, but there is scarce evidence on their effect on disease. We set-up a cluster randomized controlled trial in Santiago de Cuba to evaluate the entomological and epidemiological effectiveness of periodic...