Intensity of insecticide resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus from Chikwawa, rural Southern Malawi

Table 2 WHO susceptibility tube assays

Village	Insecticide	Dose	No. of mosquitoes exposed^a	% Mortality
Chakanira	Control	0×	29	0
	Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)	1×	103	98.9
	Control	0×	27	0
	Bendiocarb	1×	93	33.8
	Pirimiphos-methyl	1×	103	100
Sisewu^b	Control	0×	28	0.0
Sisewu^b	Permethrin	1×	25	35.4

^aLow sample numbers could have affected these tests
^bDue to limited mosquito numbers collected from Sisewu village, susceptibility tests were only carried out on permethrin

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