Tabachnick Walter J
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, IFAS, 200 9th St. SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA.
Insects. 2016 Sep 28;7(4):50. doi: 10.3390/insects7040050.
Research on mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases has contributed to improvements in providing effective, efficient, and environmentally proper mosquito control. Florida has benefitted from several research accomplishments that have increased the state's mosquito control capabilities. Research with Florida's mosquitoes has resulted in the development of ecologically sound management of mosquito impoundments on Florida's east coast. This strategy, called Rotational Impoundment Management (RIM), has improved the ability to target the delivery of pesticides and has helped to reduce non-target effects and environmental damage. Research has led to the development of an arbovirus surveillance system which includes sentinel chicken surveillance, real time use of environmental contributing factors like meteorology and hydrology to target mosquito control, as well as public health efforts to mitigate disease outbreaks to areas with risk of disease. These research driven improvements have provided substantial benefits to all of Florida. More research is needed to meet the future challenges to reduce emerging pathogens like Zika virus and the consequences of environmental changes like global climate change that are likely to influence the effects of mosquito-borne pathogens on human health and well-being.
对蚊子及蚊媒疾病的研究有助于改进蚊子控制工作，使其更有效、高效且环保。佛罗里达州受益于多项研究成果，这些成果增强了该州的蚊子控制能力。对佛罗里达州蚊子的研究促成了对该州东海岸蚊子蓄水池进行生态合理管理。这种策略称为轮灌管理（RIM），提高了农药投放的针对性，有助于减少非目标影响和环境破坏。研究还促成了虫媒病毒监测系统的开发，该系统包括哨兵鸡监测、实时利用气象和水文等环境影响因素来确定蚊子控制目标，以及开展公共卫生工作以减轻疾病向有疾病风险地区的爆发。这些由研究推动的改进给整个佛罗里达州带来了巨大益处。还需要开展更多研究，以应对未来的挑战，减少寨卡病毒等新出现病原体以及全球气候变化等环境变化的影响，这些变化可能会影响蚊媒病原体对人类健康和福祉的作用。
