Scaled-Up Malaria Control Efforts Breed Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitoes (IMAGE)

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Scaled-Up Malaria Control Efforts Breed Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitoes

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Anopheles funestus mosquitoes resting inside insecticide-treated bednets in the field in Africa through selection in these populations of a highly resistant allele from a cytochrome P450 gene in response to the scale up of control interventions in Africa. (A photograph taken personally from Dr. Wondji in the field).

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Charles Wondji.

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