Table 2 Mortality of adult female malaria mosquitoes vectors collected from different ecological areas of the Kassena-Nankana district when exposed to different insecticides
From: Insecticide resistance profiles for malaria vectors in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana
Number of mosquitoes tested | % mortality | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Insecticide | Irrigated | Lowland | Rocky highland | Irrigated | Lowland | Rocky highland |
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 |