Skip to main content

Table 4 Mortality rates and knockdown times for An. gambiae (s.l.) populations exposed to different insecticides in two Sahelian sites in Mauritania

From: Seasonal abundance, blood meal sources and insecticide susceptibility in major anopheline malaria vectors from southern Mauritania

Insecticide

Rosso

Kobeni

n

% mortality

(95% CI)a

KDT50 (95% CI)

KDT95 (95% CI)

n

% mortality (95% CI)a

KDT50 (95% CI)

KDT95 (95% CI)

Deltamethrin 0.05%

100

97 (95–99)

17 (15–18)

63 (54–77)

80

100

14 (5–20)

91 (52–580)

Permethrin 0.75%

100

64 (60–68)

31 (26–38)

592 (297–2007)

75

98.6 (96–100)

17 (14–20)

141 (98–248)

Malathion 5%

100

100

  

100

100

  

Bendiocarb 0.1%

100

100

  

100

100

  
  1. aMortality rate 24 hr post exposure to the insecticides with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses
  2. Abbreviations: n, number of mosquitoes tested; KDT50 and KDT95, knockdown time in minutes for 50 and 95% mortality, respectively