CV Lattes
ORCID
Abstract
In tropical and subtropical countries is recurrent the existence of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as dengue and yellow fever, which have stagnant water as the main place of proliferation of their larvae. Brazil suffers from dengue epidemics annually and, as it is a virus without a cure or vaccine, it has become a public health problem to be tackled. The use of copepods is an al…