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Volume 14, Number 11—November 2008

Research

Mixture for Controlling Insecticide-Resistant Malaria Vectors

Cédric Pennetier1Comments to Author , Carlo Costantini, Vincent Corbel, Séverine Licciardi, Roch K. Dabiré, Bruno Lapied, Fabrice Chandre, and Jean-Marc Hougard
Author affiliations: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Cotonou, Bénin (C. Pennetier, S. Licciardi, F. Chandre, J.-M. Hougard); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement , Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (C. Costantini); Centre de Recherche Entomologique de Cotonou, Cotonou (C. Pennetier, S. Licciardi, F. Chandre, J.-M. Hougard); Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Bobo-Dioulasso (C. Costantini, R.K. Dabiré); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France (V. Corbel); Université d’Angers, Angers, France (B. Lapied);

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Table 1

Frequency of molecular forms and alleles in Anopheles gambiae mosquitos, southwestern Burkina Faso*

Season S form frequency/no. tested kdr frequency/no. tested Ace1R frequency/no. tested
May–June (dry season) 0.05/43 0.08/41 0.01/40
September–October (rainy season) 0.85/49 0.88/48 0.40/49

*Mosquito samples were randomly taken from a control (untreated) hut; S form, Savannah form; kdr, knockdown resistance allele; Ace1R, insensitive acetylcholinesterase resistance allele.

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1Current affilations: Natural Resources Institute, Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK; and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

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