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SUBMITTER: Yewhalaw D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2912588 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yewhalaw Delenasaw D Bortel Wim Van WV Denis Leen L Coosemans Marc M Duchateau Luc L Speybroeck Niko N
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20100701 1
The status of knockdown resistance (kdr) mutation was investigated in the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis Patton (Diptera: Culicidae) from Ethiopia. Among 240 mosquito samples from 15 villages of southwestern Ethiopia that were screened by allele-specific polymerase chain reaction for kdr mutations, the West African kdr mutation (L1014F) was detected in almost all specimens (98.5%), whereas the East African kdr mutation (L1014S) was absent. Moreover, the mortality of An. gambiae s.l. t ...[more]