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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Use of Insecticide-Treated House Screens to Reduce Infestations of Dengue Virus Vectors, Mexico

Pablo Manrique-Saide, Azael Che-Mendoza, Mario Barrera-Perez, Guillermo Guillermo-May, Josue Herrera-Bojorquez, Felipe Dzul-Manzanilla, Cipriano Gutierrez-Castro, Audrey Lenhart, Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Johannes Sommerfeld, Philip J. McCall, Axel Kroeger, and Juan I. Arredondo-Jimenez1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico (P. Manrique-Saide, M. Barrera-Perez, G. Guillermo-May, J. Herrera-Bojorquez); Servicios de Salud de Yucatán, Gobierno del Estado de Yucatan, Merida (A. Che-Mendoza); Servicios Estatales de Salud de Guerrero, Chilpancingo, Mexico (F. Dzul-Manzanilla, C. Gutierrez-Castro); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A. Lenhart); Emory University, Atlanta (G. Vazquez-Prokopec); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J. Sommerfeld, A. Kroeger); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (P.J. McCall); Centro Nacional de Programas Preventivos y Control de Enfermedades, Mexico City, Mexico (J.I. Arredondo-Jimenez)

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Figure 1

Area of study of long-lasting insecticide-treated screens in Acapulco, Mexico, March 2011–March 2013. A) Locations of clusters in the neighborhoods of Ciudad Renacimiento and Zapata, showing areas with (red) and without (blue) screens. Insets show location of study area (black box) in Acapulco and Guerrero state (black shading) in Mexico. B) Photographs of screens mounted on aluminum frames and fixed to windows and external doors of treated houses in 2012. The insects visible in the right photog

Figure 1. Area of study of long-lasting insecticide-treated screens in Acapulco, Mexico, March 2011–March 2013. A) Locations of clusters in the neighborhoods of Ciudad Renacimiento and Zapata, showing areas with (red) and without (blue) screens. Insets show location of study area (black box) in Acapulco and Guerrero state (black shading) in Mexico. B) Photographs of screens mounted on aluminum frames and fixed to windows and external doors of treated houses in 2012. The insects visible in the right photograph are dead house flies.

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1Current affiliation: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.

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