Table 2 |
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Mortality of adult female malaria mosquitoes vectors collected from different ecological areas of the Kassena-Nankana district when exposed to different insecticides |
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Number of mosquitoes tested |
% mortality |
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Insecticide |
Irrigated |
Lowland |
Rocky highland |
Irrigated |
Lowland |
Rocky highland |
|
|
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Permethrin 0.75% |
887 |
534 |
832 |
94.6 |
85.3 |
82.4 |
|
Deltamethrin 0.05% |
1125 |
510 |
818 |
96.3 |
97.6 |
94.0 |
|
Cyfluthrin 0.15% |
897 |
506 |
348 |
100 |
100 |
99.8 |
|
Lambda-cyhalothrin 0.1% |
886 |
422 |
338 |
95.1 |
98.5 |
89.4 |
|
DDT 4% |
765 |
512 |
360 |
82.7 |
77.5 |
85.9 |
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Anto et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8:81 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-81 |
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