Recent rapid rise of a permethrin knock down resistance allele in Aedes aegypti in México.

• Main Authors: Gustavo Ponce García (Author), Adriana E Flores (Author), Ildefonso Fernández-Salas (Author), Karla Saavedra-Rodríguez (Author), Guadalupe Reyes-Solis (Author), Saul Lozano-Fuentes (Author), J Guillermo Bond (Author), Mauricio Casas-Martínez (Author), Janine M Ramsey (Author), Julián García-Rejón (Author), Marco Domínguez-Galera (Author), Hilary Ranson (Author), Janet Hemingway (Author), Lars Eisen (Author), William C Black IV (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Aedes aegypti, the 'yellow fever mosquito', is the primary vector to humans of dengue and yellow fever flaviviruses (DENV, YFV), and is a known vector of the chikungunya alphavirus (CV). Because vaccines are not yet available for DENV or CV or are inadequately distributed in dev...