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  1. WHARTON RH
    Nature, 1951 May 26;167(4256):854-5.
    PMID: 14833440
  2. EDESON JF, WHARTON RH, WILSON T, REID JA
    Med J Malaya, 1957 Sep;12(1):319-47.
    PMID: 13492806
  3. Wharton RH
    Bull World Health Organ, 1958;18(4):657-65.
    PMID: 13536808
    Resistance to insecticides in Culex pipiens fatigans has already been reported from two areas in Malaya. In Penang two years' use of BHC as a larvicide resulted in the development of a strain which was found to have acquired a tenfold resistance to BHC, and also to dieldrin to which it had not been exposed. In Singapore, when larval control became unsatisfactory after 6 months' use of a dieldrin emulsion, laboratory experiments confirmed that active resistance to dieldrin had developed. The present observations report the finding of two further dieldrin-BHC resistant strains of C. p. fatigans in Malaya, but differ from the previous reports in that resistance, in one strain at least, was developed as a result of house-spraying with dieldrin against adult mosquitos. In this strain resistance to dieldrin was about 100 times in both adults and larvae, resistance to gamma-BHC in larvae was about 20 times, while resistance to DDT was slight.
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