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Table 1 Susceptibility of adult female Anopheles gambiae and An. funestus mosquitoes to selected pyrethroid insecticides and DDT

From: Insecticide resistance profiles for malaria vectors in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana

 

Number of mosquitoes tested

% knock-down after 1 hour exposure

Insecticides

An. gambiae

An. funestus

An. gambiae

An. funestus

Permethrin 0.75%

1372

881

63.2

65.0

Deltamethrin 0.05%

1451

1011

89.5

92.1

Cyfluthrin 0.15%

897

854

99.6

99.8

Lambdacyhalothrin 0.1%

888

758

88.2

94.4

DDT 4%

1068

569

33.8

50.6