Reynolds D G
Bull World Health Organ. 1972;46(6):807-12.
Chemical control of C. p. fatigans frequently fails because the mosquito rapidly develops resistance to insecticides. A possible alternative or complementary method is biological control, including the introduction of pathogens. The microsporidian Plistophora culicis was known to infect readily and have an adverse effect on C. p. fatigans populations in the laboratory, so an attempt was made to introduce and establish this pathogen in a wild population of the mosquito on the Pacific island of Nauru. Two years after introduction the pathogen was still present in the wild population. However, the infection rate was similar to that found in naturally occurring infections in other mosquitos and is almost certainly not high enough to affect a natural population of C. p. fatigans adversely.
对致倦库蚊进行化学防治常常失败，因为这种蚊子会迅速对杀虫剂产生抗性。一种可能的替代或补充方法是生物防治，包括引入病原体。已知微孢子虫库蚊普利斯托虫易于感染致倦库蚊，并在实验室中对其种群产生不利影响，因此人们尝试在太平洋岛国瑙鲁的野生致倦库蚊种群中引入并确立这种病原体。引入两年后，该病原体仍存在于野生种群中。然而，感染率与在其他蚊子自然感染中发现的感染率相似，几乎可以肯定其不足以对野生致倦库蚊种群产生不利影响。
