PMID: 2485170Jul 1, 1988Paper

Responses of Anopheles culicifacies sibling species A and B to DDT and HCH in India: implications in malaria control

Medical and Veterinary Entomology
S K SubbaraoV P Sharma

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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Jan 1, 1986·Social Science & Medicine·V P Sharma, K N Mehrotra

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Jan 1, 1988·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene·S K SubbaraoV P Sharma
Dec 29, 2000·Medical and Veterinary Entomology·K Walker
Feb 1, 1996·Insect Molecular Biology·F H Collins, S M Paskewitz
Aug 3, 2020·Insect Molecular Biology·X L Zheng
Oct 5, 2001·Medical and Veterinary Entomology·N HerrelF Konradsen
Sep 8, 2009·Trends in Parasitology·Vineeta SinghAparup Das

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