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Table 4 Mortality recorded in Anopheles funestus males and females collected during the 2011 and 2012 field assays following 1-h insecticide exposures using standard WHO tubes

From: Malaria vectors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the mechanisms that confer insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus

Insecticide

2011

2012

N

% Mortality

Resistance status

N

% Mortality

Resistance status

Deltamethrin (0.75%)

100

93

Suspected resistance

139

69

Resistant

Malathion (5%)

88

100

Susceptible

101

100

Susceptible

Fenitrothion (1%)

110

100

Susceptible

95

100

Susceptible

Propoxur (0.1%)

72

97

Suspected resistance

48

100

Susceptible

Bendiocarb (0.1%)

142

98

Susceptible

202

98

Susceptible

DDT (4%)

101

99

Susceptible

237

95

Suspected resistance

Dieldrin (0.4%)

49

100

Susceptible

49

100

Susceptible

  1. Interpretation of resistance status is based on WHO criteria [49]