Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, María Magdalena et al. Situation of the insecticidal resistance and its mechanisms in Aedes aegypti in Boyeros municipality. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 2009, vol.61, n.2. ISSN 0375-0760.

INTRODUCTION: the control of Aedes aegypti remains the only available measure to reduce dengue transmission. Unfortunately, this vector has proved that it is capable of developing resistance to a great variety of toxic substances. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the resistance to chemical insecticides in larvae and adult vectors in Boyeros municipality, City of Havana as well as those mechanisms supporting it. METHODS: insecticide resistance of mosquito larvae and adults was evaluated with the WHO methodologies. The resistance mechanisms were determined through synergy and biochemical tests. Polyacrylamid gel electropheresis was applied to visualize esterases. RESULTS: larvae were susceptible to the evaluated organophosphate insecticides whereas resistance to pyrethroids, cypermethrin and deltamethrin was observed. Bioassays performed in larvae with temephos-made commercial product showed 100 % mortality up to 10 days, with daily change of water. It was proved that neither esterases nor glutathione transferase played an important role in larval insecticide resistance. Low frequency amplified esterase A4 was present in the studied samples. In adult stage, Boyeros strain was resistant to pyrethroids ciflutrhine and Lambdacyalothrine, in verification to deltamethrine and susceptible to cypermethrine; it was also resistant to organophosphate chlorpiriphos and organochlorate DDT. CONCLUSIONS: these results confirm that although the pyrethroid cipermethrine has been widely used in Boyeros municipality, it continues being effective for Ae. aegypti control.

Keywords : Aedes aegypti; resistance to chemical insecticides; esterases; glutathione transferase.

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