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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: anopheles funestus

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
diptera culicidae anopheles mosquito MED

Active Ingredient: BHC/cyclodienes - Unspecified In Literature

MOA: GABA-gated chloride channel antagonists, Cyclodiene organochlorines
Group: CYCLO CAS #: 0 Shaugnessy Code: 0

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G3652 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Benin WHO 1980. (1980).
G3653 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Burkina Faso WHO 1980. (1980).
G3654 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Central African Republic WHO 1980. (1980).
G3655 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Mali WHO 1980. (1980).
G3057 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Cameroon WHO 1976. (1976).
G1805 1971 Field Evolved Resistance
Kenya Brown, A. W. A. (1971). Pest resistance to pesticides.. In: ""Pesticides in the Enviroment,"" ed. White-Stevens,, 1 457-552.
G480 1964 Field Evolved Resistance
Ghana Iyengar, R. (1964). Dieldrin resistance in Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus in the eastern region of Ghana.. WHO unpublished document WHO/Mal/526.
G286 1961 Field Evolved Resistance
Nigeria Duret, J.P. (1961). In: Brown 1971.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.