Subbarao, Sarala K. ; Vasantha, K. ; Sharma, V. P. (1988) Responses of Anopheles culicifacies sibling species A and B to DDT and HCH in India: implications in malaria control Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 2 (3). pp. 219-223. ISSN 0269-283X
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Abstract
Differential responses of Anopheles culicifacies Giles sibling species A and B to DDT were evident from higher survival rate of species B in laboratory bioassays and greater proportions of species B in DDT-sprayed villages of northern India, compared with those under HCH pressure. Both species A and B have become almost completely resistant to HCH in this area due to regular house-spraying with HCH for about the last 10 years. Because species A predominates in northern India, where it has been incriminated as an important vector of malaria, and species A is more susceptible than species B to DDT, it is suggested that DDT would control malaria transmission more effectively than HCH in this situation. Monitoring of insecticide resistance in species A is therefore recommended as the basis for future choice of insecticides to be used by the National Malaria Eradication Programme.
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| Keywords: | Anopheles culicifacies; Sibling Species; Malaria Control; India; DDT; HCH; Insecticide Resistance; Resistance Management |
| ID Code: | 46603 |
| Deposited On: | 05 Jul 2011 11:40 |
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