The need for practical insecticide-resistance guidelines to effectively inform mosquito-borne disease control programs.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring local mosquito populations for insecticide resistance is critical for effective vector-borne disease control. However, widely used phenotypic assays, which are designed to monitor the emergence and spread of insecticide resistance (technical resistance), do not translate well to the efficacy of vector control products to suppress mosquito numbers in the field (practical resistance). This is because standard testing conditions such as environmental conditions, exposure dose, and type of substrate differ dramatically from those experienced by mosquitoes under field conditions. In addition, field mosquitoes have considerably different physiological characteristics such as age and blood-feeding status. Beyond this, indirect impacts of insecticide resistance and/or exposure on mosqui

SUBMITTER: Namias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346280 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature