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1 May 2008 Differential Patterns of Insecticide Resistance in Eggs and First Instars of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Argentina and Bolivia
Ariel Ceferino Toloza, Monica Germano, Gastón Mougabure Cueto, Claudia Vassena, Eduardo Zerba, María Inés Picollo
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Previous work at our laboratory has indicated high resistance levels to deltamethrin correlated with failures of chemical control in field populations of Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in northern Argentina and southern Bolivia. The aim of the present work was to study the resistance patterns in eggs and first instars of T. infestans in populations from Argentina and Bolivia. At the egg stage, a population from Salvador Mazza, Argentina, showed the highest resistance ratio to deltamethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin, and it was susceptible to fipronil and fenitrothion. A population from Mataral, Bolivia, showed very low resistance ratios to deltamethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin, and it was susceptible to fipronil and fenitrothion. A Sucre population was susceptible to deltamethrin and fenitrothion, and it showed very low resistant ratios to lambda-cyhalothrin and fipronil. A Yacuiba population was susceptible to deltamethrin. At the first instar, the Salvador Mazza population was susceptible to fipronil, whereas the Mataral and Sucre populations were susceptible to fenitrothion, and they showed very low resistance ratios to lambda-cyhalothrin but the high resistance to fipronil. The Salvador Mazza population was resistant to deltamethrin at the larval stage. Remarkable differences were found in the resistance profile to fipronil in first instars and eggs from Sucre and Mataral. These indicated that the expression of insecticide resistance in eggs varies between populations and that the pyrethroid resistance diagnosed in T. infestans first instars is not indicative of resistance in the egg stage.

Ariel Ceferino Toloza, Monica Germano, Gastón Mougabure Cueto, Claudia Vassena, Eduardo Zerba, and María Inés Picollo "Differential Patterns of Insecticide Resistance in Eggs and First Instars of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Argentina and Bolivia," Journal of Medical Entomology 45(3), 421-426, (1 May 2008). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[421:DPOIRI]2.0.CO;2
Received: 23 July 2007; Accepted: 8 November 2007; Published: 1 May 2008
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KEYWORDS
Chagas’ disease vector
egg
first instar
insecticide resistance
Triatoma infestans
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