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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: pulex irritans

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
siphonaptera pulicidae human flea 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
G3268 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Brazil WHO 1976. (1976).
G3269 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Czechoslovakia WHO 1976. (1976).
G3270 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Egypt WHO 1976. (1976).
G1936 1971 Field Evolved Resistance
Tanzania Brown, A. W. A. (1971). Pest resistance to pesticides.. In: ""Pesticides in the Enviroment,"" ed. White-Stevens,, 1 457-552.
G1138 1966 Field Evolved Resistance
Turkey WHO. (1966). Summary of tests reported to ME/RTI from 1 September 1965 to 28 February 1966 showing abnormal physiological responses of anophelines to insecticides.. WHO Inf. Circ. Insecticide Resistance., 56 30.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.