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Comparative assessment of insecticide resistance phenotypes in two major malaria vectors, Anopheles funestus and Anopheles arabiensis in south-eastern Tanzania.
Malaria journal - 11 Nov 2020
Pinda Polius G, Eichenberger Claudia, Ngowo Halfan S, Msaky Dickson S, Abbasi Said, Kihonda Japhet, Bwanaly Hamis, Okumu Fredros O
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BACKGROUND: Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) have greatly reduced malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, but are threatened by insecticide resistance. In south-eastern Tanzania, pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles funestus are now implicated in > 80% of malaria infections, even in villages where the species occurs at lower densities than the other vector, Anopheles...
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