Open AccessStatus of Insecticide Resistance of Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi towards Insecticides in Alwar District of Rajasthan, India
Author(s) -
Nitesh Kumar Sharma,
Mohammad Ali,
Sarmad Moin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of communicable diseases/journal of communicable diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2581-351X
pISSN - 0019-5138
DOI - 10.24321/0019.5138.202109
Subject(s) - anopheles stephensi , deltamethrin , malaria , vector (molecular biology) , toxicology , indoor residual spraying , cypermethrin , biology , anopheles , veterinary medicine , insecticide resistance , pesticide , permethrin , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , larva , aedes aegypti , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , agronomy , botany , biochemistry , artemisinin , gene , recombinant dna
Pyrethroids have been developed as a powerful insecticide that is widely used for space spray and residual indoor spraying, with impregnated nets included in the vector control programme. Insecticide resistance reduces the effectiveness of pesticides. Therefore, the vector susceptibility condition of the Anopheles stephensi is monitored in order to select the active ones. The current study is being conducted in a malaria-ridden area in various parts of the Alwar region of Rajasthan, India, against the malaria vector An. stephensi. The Susceptibility study was conducted by the WHO standardized method using the diagnostic doses of DDT, Alpha-cypermethrin and Deltamethrin. An. stephensi showed intermediate resistance to DDT from all over the study while susceptible to Alpha-cypermethrin and Deltamethrin.