Pathogens and global health
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Community-based control of Aedes aegypti by adoption of eco-health methods in Chennai City, India.
Dengue is highly endemic in Chennai city, South India, in spite of continuous vector control efforts. This intervention study was aimed at establishing the efficacy as well as the favouring and limiting factors relating to a community-based environmental intervention package to control the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. ⋯ A community-based approach together with other stakeholders that promoted interventions to prevent dengue vector breeding led to a substantial reduction in dengue vector density.