Impact of environmental temperatures on resistance to organophosphate insecticides in Aedes aegypti from Trinidad Repercusión de las temperaturas ambientales sobre la resistencia de Aedes aegypti a los insecticidas organofosforados en Trinidad

• Main Authors: Karen A. Polson, William G. Brogdon, Samuel C. Rawlins, Dave D. Chadee
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Culicidae; aedes; control de mosquitos; resistencia a los insecticidas; insecticidas organofosforados; temperatura ambiental; Trinidad y Tobago; mosquito control; insecticide resistance; insecticides; organophosphate; temperature; Trinidad and Tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad; Global warming
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a94e1e7813bc4b4085c3847a092c33d3

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of increasing larval rearing temperatures on the resistance status of Trinidadian populations of Aedes aegypti to organophosphate (OP) insecticides. METHODS: In 2007-2008, bioassays and biochemical assays were conducted on A. aegypti larvae collected in 2006 from ei...