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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: anopheles stephensi

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

Active Ingredient: malathion

MOA: Acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, Organophophates
Group: OP CAS #: 121755 Shaugnessy Code: 57701

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G3722 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
India WHO 1980. (1980).
G3723 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Iraq Shidrawi, G.R. (1980). Impact of pesticide resistance on disease prevention and control in Eastern Mediterranean countries.. WHO unpublished document VBC/EC/80.15.
G3724 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Pakistan Rathor, H. R., Toqir, G. and Reisen, W. K. (1980). Status of insecticide resistance in anopheline mosquitoes of Punjab Province, Pakistan.. Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Pub. Health, 11 332-40.
G3114 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Iran Manouchehri, A. V., Djanbakhsh, B. and Rouhani, R. (1976). Studies on the resistance of Anopheles stephensi to malathion in Bandar Abbas, Iran.. Mosq. News, 36 320-22.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.