Ovitrap; a Global Device for Monitoring and Control of Dengue Fever, Chikungunya Yellow Fever and Zika

The report of numerous outbreaks of dengue fever, Zika , yellow fever and chikungunya from various regions of the world, as well as expansion of their vectors in recent decades, emphasize the importance of monitoring and control of these arboviruses vectors . Ovitrap is used as the most common tool for monitoring of the vectors population. This review was conducted to introduce the important of this device.
In this study, 77 English articles indexed in different databases such as Pubmed, Web of Sciences, Scopus, Science direct and Google scholar were exploited.
Sixteen Ovitrap in 6 different groups were studied, from which the simplest was CDC Ovitrap and the most advanced were ln2 trap and Improved Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap. In addition to the dengue vectors, today ovitrap can be used in the monitoring and control of malaria vectors such as Ovi-ART gravid trap. Ease of use, long life, easy maintenance and environmentally friendly is considered as the advantages of ovitraps. Ovitrap structure, function, settings and its indexes were also explored.
Generally, ovitrap includes vectors of the important diseases like dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile fever, equine encephalitis and so on. It can play on research, monitoring and control for these major diseases. This study can raise the awareness of health workers in this issue especially in the areas with the possibility of vector existence.These devise also could be employed for control of vector using larvicides and attractants in it.