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Preliminary investigation of the mechanisms of DDT and pyrethroid resistance in Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) from Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

A. M. Amin  and
J. Hemingway
A. M. Amin
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine and Allied Sciences, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
J. Hemingway*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, Gower Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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*To whom all correspondence should be sent.
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Abstract

High levels (>1000-fold) of resistance to DDT, permethrin and deltamethrin were detected in Culex quinquefasciatus Say from Saudi Arabia. Biochemical enzyme and metabolic studies indicated that there is evidence for a metabolic basis to both the organochlorine and pyrethroid resistances. Electrophysiological studies indicated that there is no kdr-type mechanism conferring resistance to the pyrethroid lambda-cyhalothrin neurophysiologically, although there is evidence of cross-resistance between DDT and the pyrethroids by bioassays. There was a change in the oxidase system in both the DDT- and permethrin-selected strains and an increase in glutathione transferase activity in the DDT-selected line. Metabolic studies indicated that both oxidases and glutathione transferases are involved with DDT resistance as DDA and DDE were the predominant metabolites after a 5-h in-vitro incubation period. Permethrin resistance is likely to involve an increase in oxidative degradation, but further metabolic studies are needed to confirm this.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 361 - 366
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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