de Zulueta J
Casa de Mondragón, Ronda, Màlaga, Spain.
Parassitologia. 2000 Jun;42(1-2):87-90.
Dealing with malaria in the last 60 years is seen by the author in the perspective of his own experience. His malaria work, which began in 1941, covered the study of the habits of the mosquitoes dwelling in the savanna country of Eastern Colombia and the effect on malaria transmission of the newly introduced DDT residual spraying. The success of the campaign he later directed in Sarawak and Brunei contributed to the launching by WHO of its global malaria eradication campaign. Further successful work in Uganda showed the possibility of effective control and even eradication in highland country but left unsolved the problem of how to interrupt transmission of holoendemic malaria in Africa. The author's work with WHO in the Middle East showed to what extent social and economic conditions could influence the course of a malaria campaign. This was also the experience in America, both in Colombia in the author's early work and later in Mexico during an evaluation of the national malaria programme. Development of insecticide resistance was also encountered in his career and the refractoriness of the European vectors was also observed in his work as a malariologist.
作者从自身经历的角度回顾了过去60年里与疟疾作斗争的历程。他于1941年开始从事疟疾研究工作，内容包括对哥伦比亚东部热带稀树草原地区蚊子习性的研究，以及新引入的滴滴涕残留喷洒对疟疾传播的影响。他后来在砂拉越和文莱指导的防治运动取得成功，促使世界卫生组织发起全球疟疾根除运动。在乌干达开展的进一步成功工作表明，在高原地区有效控制甚至根除疟疾是有可能的，但未能解决如何阻断非洲高度地方性疟疾传播的问题。作者在世卫组织中东地区的工作表明，社会和经济条件在多大程度上会影响疟疾防治运动的进程。在美国也是如此，无论是作者早期在哥伦比亚的工作，还是后来在墨西哥对国家疟疾项目进行评估时，都是如此。在他的职业生涯中还遇到了杀虫剂抗性问题，作为一名疟疾学家，他在工作中也观察到了欧洲病媒的耐药性。
