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Resistance to insecticides of Simulium soubrense and Simulium sanctipauli of the Simulium damnosum complex

Anonymous

Weekly Epidemiological Record 57(12): 95-96

1982


Accession: 000970029

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In May 1980, in the Bandama River, Ivory Coast, only 1 year after temephos had first been used there as part of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme to interrupt transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by its simuliid vectors, larvae of Simulium soubrense Vajime & Dunbar and S. sanctipauli Vaijime & Dunbar in the area developed resistance to the compound. Other vectors in the area of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme remain susceptible to temephos.

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