Volume 14, Number 11—November 2008
Research
Mixture for Controlling Insecticide-Resistant Malaria Vectors
Cédric Pennetier1
, Carlo Costantini, Vincent Corbel, Séverine Licciardi, Roch K. Dabiré, Bruno Lapied, Fabrice Chandre, and Jean-Marc Hougard
, Carlo Costantini, Vincent Corbel, Séverine Licciardi, Roch K. Dabiré, Bruno Lapied, Fabrice Chandre, and Jean-Marc HougardTable 3
Comparative frequencies of 2 resistance genes between mosquitoes after exposure to treated nets*
| Treatment | kdr frequency/no. tested |
Ace1R frequency/no. tested |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surviving mosquitoes | Dead mosquitoes | p value | Total no. tested | Surviving mosquitoes | Dead mosquitoes | p value | Total no. tested | ||
| PM+DEET | 0.93/22 | 0.98/27 | 0.32 | 49 | 0.50/23 | 0.45/28 | 0.51 | 51 | |
| PM+KBR | 0.89/23 | 0.96/28 | 0.22 | 51 | 0.43/23 | 0.46/26 | 0.74 | 49 | |
| Kothrin | 1.00/33 | 0.95/19 | 0.13 | 52 | 0.44/34 | 0.39/19 | 0.49 | 53 | |
*kdr, knockdown resistance allele; Ace1R, insensitive acetylcholinesterase resistance allele; PM, pirimiphos methyl; DEET, diethyl-3-methylbenzamide; KBR, hydroxyethyl isobutyl piperidine carboxylate; Kothrin, 20% deltamethrin (Bayer Crop Science, Monheim am Rhein, Germany).
