Insecticide resistance in indoor and outdoor-resting Anopheles gambiae in Northern Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Selection pressure from continued exposure to insecticides drives development of insecticide resistance and changes in resting behaviour of malaria vectors. There is need to understand how resistance drives changes in resting behaviour within vector species. The association between insecticide resistance and resting behaviour of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato (s.l.) in Northern Ghana was examined.

Methods

F₁ progenies from adult mosquitoes collected indoors and outdoors were exposed to DDT, deltamethrin, malathion and bendiocarb using WHO insecticide susceptibility tests. Insecticide resistance markers including voltage-gated sodium channel (Vgsc)-1014F, Vgsc-1014S, Vgsc-1575Y, glutathione-S-transferase epsilon 2 (GSTe2)-114T and acetylcholinesterase (Ace

SUBMITTER: Hamid-Adiamoh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7460795 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature