Gambusia in the fight against malaria in the Saratov region

Recently, in the USSR, more and more attention is paid to the biological method of fighting the malaria mosquito using the insectivorous mosquito fish, the mosquito. In the specialized, mainly medical, literature there have already appeared several dozen separate articles, treating the issues of acclimatization of biology and the use of mosquito fish in the fight against malaria in various southern parts of the USSR: Abkhazia, Georgia, Dagestan, North. Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Southern Ukraine (Rukhadze, Kalendadze, Speransky, Enikolopov, Bogoyavlensky, Bogdanovich, Danilova, Prendel, Nepokupnoy, Kulagin, Petrishcheva, Lindberg Epstein and others). In the work of prof. Sergieva and Kovtun "Organization of the fight against malaria in the USSR" "Medical Parasitology", No. 6, 1937), which is a review for the 20th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution, the use of mosquito fish is considered as one of the main measures in the fight against the vector of malaria.