<i>Anopheles funestus</i>
                    resistant to pyrethroid insecticides in South Africa

Hargreaves, K.; L. Koekemoer, L.; D. Brooke, B.; H. Hunt, R.; Mthembu, J.; Coetzee, M.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2915.2000.00234.x

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<i>Anopheles funestus</i> resistant to pyrethroid insecticides in South Africa

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Authors:

K. Hargreaves

L. L. Koekemoer

B. D. Brooke

Abstract

Summary Northern Kwazulu/Natal (KZN) Province of South Africa borders on southern Mozambique, between Swaziland and the Indian Ocean. To control malaria vectors in KZN, houses were sprayed annually with residual DDT 2 g/m 2 until 1996 when the treatment changed to deltamethrin 20–25 mg/m 2 . At Ndum...

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