A full account of a preliminary efficacy
evaluation of evidengue® was published
elsewhere.[7] In short, two black plastic
flowerpot saucers, each containing 220 ml
of unchlorinated water, were individually
wrapped in the cover and placed with their
respective pots in two entomological cages
(A and B), one in each cage. One identical
set of a flowerpot and a saucer, with the
same amount of unchlorinated water, was
placed without evidengue® in a third cage
(C). Twenty gravid female Ae. aegypti, bred
in the laboratory’s insectary, were placed
into each cage four days after receiving a
blood meal from an anaesthetized mouse.
Upon the opening of the cages, no female
was found inside the evidengues®. In cage C,
there were eggs on the portion of the pot wall
immediately above the saucer’s waterline.