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Vector Control Research Unit The School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has been conducting research activities on vector biology and control especially those of mosquitoes and urban insect pests since 1972. Special attention was given to mosquito species which are vectors of many dreaded diseases of mankind such as dengue, filariasis, malaria and Japanese encephalitis. Due to the growing importance and awareness of crawling insect pests in the country in recent years, research have expanded to include studies in urban entomology. Molecular and biochemical research have also been initiated. Since 1975, the Unit has received more than 80 research grants totalling more than US$6 million from governmental and international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and multinational pesticide industries. These grants are used to conduct basic and applied researches on vectors and urban insect pests. In recognition of the research and training activities, the university established a separate entity for the research group and named it the VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH UNIT (VCRU) at the Penang Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia as of 1 October 1991. Facilities • VCRU is based in a 3½ storey building (1824.5m²). The administrative office, a molecular entomology laboratory and an urban pest laboratory are located on the first floor with a bioassay lab located on the ground floor. • WHO drug resistance kit laboratory, an insect museum and three insectariums (for the culture of eight species of mosquitoes, seven species of cockroaches, ants, houseflies and more than 60 insecticide-resistant strains of German cockroaches) are located on the second level. • Laboratory for the preparation and distribution of WHO test kits for monitoring insecticide resistance, household insecticide testing laboratory with test chambers and an insecticide analysis laboratory (equipped with gas chromato-graphy and other related analysis equipments) are located on the third level. • VCRU is well equiped with: I. Pesticides spraying equipment: space spray (cold fogger: ULV/Thermal fogging) and larvicides spray (pressurised knapsack sprayers) II. Equipment for biochemical and molecular studies (electrophoresis, centrifuge, PCR machine and other biochemical equipment). III. Equipment for environmental parameter studies (water quality analysis kit, anaemometer, thermo-hygrometer and others). • Three vehicles.
• Eight computers with relevant software and printers for reference search, data analysis and information storage. • A reference library with more than 800 books and a 50,000 reprints collection on the subjects of biology and control of vectors and urban pest. Current Research Activities Biology and control of vector mosquitoes • Systematic and ecology of Aedes, Culex, Anopheles and Mansonia mosquitoes • Screening novel, formulated insecticides (adulticides and larvicides), insect growth regulators (IGRs), attractants and repellents against Aedes, Culex and Mansonia mosquitoes • Integrated control approaches through the combination of chemical, biological agents and other control approaches for the control of mosquitoes • Efficacy and performance of space spray (ULV/ thermal fogging) machines • Molecular studies on the resistance of vector mosquitoes against insecticide and parasitic infection • Sublethal effects of space spray and household insecticide products in vector mosquitoes • Biochemical studies on insecticide resistance (baseline level and resistance mechanisms especially elevated esterases) in vector mosquitoes Cockroach/ant/termite biology and control • Survey of domiciliary cockroach/ant populations in Northern Peninsular Malaysia • Insecticide resistance (baseline level, resistance mechanisms and gene frequency estimates) in the German cockroach from hotels, restaurants and food industries in Malaysia • Screening of novel insecticides (baits and residual insecticides) for cockroaches and ants • Ecology of peridomestic cockroaches and ants in Northern Peninsular Malaysia • Impact of sanitation on the cockroach population in households • Foraging behavior of odorous house ants and ghost ants • Systematics of subterranean termite, Coptotermes sp • Systematics of urban pest ants in Malaysia • Foragging territory, population characterization and control of subterranean termites • Glucose-aversion in field populations of German cockroaches Household insecticides • Laboratory and field bioefficacy testings of new formulations of household insecticide products (mosquito coil, aerosol, mat and liquid vaporizer) • Product development and quality control of common household insecticide products
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