MOSQUITO VECTOR CONTROL AND BIOLOGY IN LATIN-AMERICA - A 3RD SYMPOSIUM

The third Spanish language symposium presented by the American Mosquit o Control Association (AMCA) was held as part of the 59th Annual Meeti ng in Fort Myers, FL, in April 1993. The principal objective, as for t he symposia held in 1991 and 1992, was to increase and stimulate great er participation in the AMCA by vector control specialists and public health workers from Latin America. This publication includes summaries of 25 presentations that were given in Spanish by participants from 8 countries in Latin America, Puerto Rico, and the USA. The symposium i ncluded the following topics: ecological, genetic, and control studies of anopheline vectors of malaria; laboratory evaluation and productio n of biological control agents for Aedes aegypti; community participat ion in the prevention of dengue; and studies of other medically import ant insects (e.g., Simulium and Triatoma).