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1 November 2012 Scientific Evidence of Three Different Insecticide-Resistant Profiles in Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Populations from Argentina and Bolivia
M. D. Germano, P. Santo-Orihuela, G. Roca-Acevedo, A. C. Toloza, C. Vassena, M. I. Picollo, G. Mougabure-Cueto
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Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) is the main vector of Chagas disease in the southern cone South America. Chemical control to the vectors appears to be the best option to reduce the incidence of the disease. However, since 2002, high resistance to insecticides that correlated with field control failures was detected in T. infestans from Argentina and Bolivia. In this paper, we analyzed three T. infestans populations whose pyrethroid-resistance had been recently detected, and we defined at least three resistant profiles according to the toxicological and biochemical characteristics of the studied resistant populations. The resistance profiles were identified as Ti-R1, Ti-R2, and Ti-R3, corresponding to the Argentinean Acambuco, and the Bolivians Entre Ríos and Mataral. Ti-R1 exhibited nymphs and eggs with medium resistance level to deltamethrin (RR = 32.5 and 28.6; respectively). Pyrethroid-esterases played a relevant role in deltamethrin resistance. Ti-R2 exhibited nymphs with high resistance to deltamethrin (RR = 173.8) and low resistance to fipronil (RR = 12.4). Pyrethroid-esterases were involved in resistance. Moreover, eggs showed medium resistance level to deltamethrin (RR = 39.1). Ti-R3 had nymphs with low resistance to deltamethrin (RR = 17.4), and medium resistance to fipronil (RR = 66.8). Pyrethroid-esterases showed increased activity, and eggs possessed low resistance to deltamethrin (RR = 8.4). The characterization of the resistance to pyrethroid in these T. infestans populations from Argentina and Bolivia do not permit the generalization of three forms of resistance profile. So far as we appear to know, the forms of mechanisms and their frequencies reported here are selected independently, so additional sites might well show additional combinations of resistance mechanisms and their frequencies.

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M. D. Germano, P. Santo-Orihuela, G. Roca-Acevedo, A. C. Toloza, C. Vassena, M. I. Picollo, and G. Mougabure-Cueto "Scientific Evidence of Three Different Insecticide-Resistant Profiles in Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Populations from Argentina and Bolivia," Journal of Medical Entomology 49(6), 1355-1360, (1 November 2012). https://doi.org/10.1603/ME12070
Received: 23 March 2012; Accepted: 1 July 2012; Published: 1 November 2012
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KEYWORDS
Chagas disease vector
insecticide resistance
toxicological profile
Triatoma infestans
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