[State of the resistance to insecticides in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from playa municipality, Havana City, Cuba].
The level of susceptibility and/or resistance of adult mosquitoes to lambda-cyhalothrin, clorpirifos and cypermethrin insecticides was determined in a strain of Aedes aegypti (L) collected in Playa municipality, Havana City. According to the results, the strain under study is not resistant to lambda-cyhalothrin and cypermethrin (FR < 5X), and it is as susceptible as the CAREC reference strain (FR=1) to chlorpyrifos.
Montada Dorta
Domingo
D
Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí, Ciudad de La Habana.
Castex Rodríguez
Mayda
M
Suárez Delgado
Silvia
S
Figueredo Sánchez
Daisy
D
Leyva Silva
Maureen
M
D000330:Aedes; D000818:Animals; D004390:Chlorpyrifos; D003462:Cuba; D007305:Insecticide Resistance; D007306:Insecticides; D009032:Mosquito Control; D009570:Nitriles; D011722:Pyrethrins
D007306:Insecticides; D009570:Nitriles; D011722:Pyrethrins; C017160:cypermethrin; D004390:Chlorpyrifos; C037304:cyhalothrin