| pyrethroid resistance/susceptibility and differential urban/rural distribution of anopheles arabiensis and an. gambiae s.s. malaria vectors in nigeria and ghana. | resistance to pyrethroid insecticides and ddt caused by the kdr gene in the malaria vector anopheles gambiae giles s.s. (diptera: culicidae) has been reported in several west african countries. to test for pyrethroid resistance in two more countries, we sampled populations of the an. gambiae complex from south-western ghana and from urban and rural localities in ogun state, south-west nigeria. adult mosquitoes, reared from field-collected larvae, were exposed to the who-recommended discriminatin ... | 2003 | 12941018 |