Use of World Health Organization susceptibility test for malaria vector control in South-Eastern Nigeria: A discourse

• Published in: Environmental Disease Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 29 - 32
• Main Authors: Akilah, Joel, Ekong, Ibanga
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd 01.04.2019; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Aedes; Anopheles; Bioassay; Causes of; Containers; Control; Disease transmission; Evaluation; Health aspects; Identification and classification; Insecticide resistance; Insecticides; Malaria; Methods; Mosquitoes; Pesticide resistance; Prevention; Public health; pyrethroids; susceptibility test; Vector control; Nigeria; susceptibility test; pyrethroids; Mosquitoes

Background: With growing evidence of mosquito vector resistance to pyrethroids and other classes of insecticides globally, we employed one of the two important tools for the monitoring of insecticide resistance in selected states in southeastern part of Nigeria via the World Health Organization (WHO...