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Insecticide resistance in the malarial mosquito Anopheles arabiensis and association with the kdr mutation.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Mar 2007
Matambo T S, Abdalla H, Brooke B D, Koekemoer L L, Mnzava A, Hunt R H, Coetzee M
Abstract excerpt
A colony of Anopheles arabiensis Patton (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Sennar region of Sudan was selected for resistance to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). Adults from the F-16 generation of the resistant strain were exposed to all four classes of insecticides approved for use in malaria vector control and showed high levels of resistance to them all (24-h mortalities: malathion, 16.7%; bendiocarb, 33.3%;...
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