Aedes aegypti susceptibility to insecticide from Abidjan City, Cote D'ivoire

• Published in: Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) Vol. 12; no. 4; p. 325
• Main Authors: Konan, Lucien Yao, Coulibaly, Ibrahima Zanakoungo, Kone, Blaise Atioumounan, Ziogba, Jean-Claude Tokou, Diallo, Adama, Ekra, Daniel Kouadio, Traoré, Karim Sory, Doannio, Marie Christian Julien, Paul, Odehouri-Koudou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01-04-2012
• Subjects: Aedes - drug effects; Aedes - growth & development; Animals; Cote d'Ivoire; DDT - pharmacology; Female; Insecticide Resistance; Insecticides - pharmacology; Larva - drug effects; Larva - growth & development; Mosquito Control - methods; Nitriles - pharmacology; Permethrin - pharmacology; Propoxur - pharmacology; Pyrethrins - pharmacology; Time Factors; Cote d'Ivoire
• ISSN: 1557-7759
• DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0617

The susceptibility of Aedes aegypti adults of three places in Abidjan city selected for an entomological surveillance of potential arbovirus vectors to permethrin, deltamethrin, lambdacyhalothrin, and propoxur was determined using WHO standard procedures. The wild populations of A. aegypti were susceptible to permethrin, deltamethirn, and lambdacyhalothin. Resistance to propoxur was detected in strains collected at the Autonomous Port of Abidjan and at Koumassi (mortality rate: 77%) but possibly resistance to this insecticide at the national zoological park (mortality rate: 90.8%). Populations of the national zoological park were possibly resistant to propoxur whereas those of the Autonomous port of Abidjan and of Koumassi were resistant.