Anopheles funestus resistant to pyrethroid insecticides in South Africa

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 181-189

  Hargreaves, K ^a   Koekemoer, L L ^b   Brooke, B D ^b   Hunt, R H ^b   Mthembu, J ^a   Coetzee, M ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; Deltamethrin; Malaria vector; Molecular identification; Permethrin; Pyrethroid resistance; South Africa; Susceptibility tests

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES LEESONI; ANOPHELES PARENSIS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; CHLORPHENOTANE; DELTAMETHRIN; DISEASE CONTROL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; PERMETHRIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRETHROID; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL; WILD RELATIVE;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; PYRETHRINS;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES LEESONI; ANOPHELES PARENSIS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FUNESTUS GROUP; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0034045691     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2000.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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