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The potential use of ivermectin as an additional vector control tool is receiving increased attention from the malaria elimination community, driven by the increased importance of outdoor/residual malaria transmission and the threat of insecticide resistance where vector tools have been scaled-up. This report summarizes the emerging evidence presented at a side meeting on "Ivermectin for malaria elimination: current status and future directions" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans on November 4, 2014. One outcome was the creation of the "Ivermectin Research for Malaria Elimination Network" whose main goal is to establish a common research agenda to generate the evidence base on whether ivermectin-based strategies should be added to the emerging arsenal to interrupt malaria transmission.

Original publication

DOI

10.1186/s12936-015-0691-6

Type

Journal

Malaria journal

Publication Date

06/2015

Volume

14

Addresses

Department of Internal Medicine, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. carlos.chaccour@isglobal.org.

Keywords

Animals, Anopheles, Malaria, Ivermectin, Insecticides, Insect Vectors, Mosquito Control, Insecticide Resistance, New Orleans