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Pesticide Resistance Training

Dr. Janet McAllister of the CDC came to Suffolk, Virginia on January 26, 2018 to teach a workshop on the bottle bioassay method for determining pesticide resistance in local mosquito populations. Several jurisdictions were present for the training including Chesapeake, Fairfax County, Hampton, Henrico County, Langley Air Force Base, Newport News, Norfolk, Prince William County, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and York County. Please read the article in the 2018 WinterSpring edition of The Skeeter for a summary of the workshop. See below for some important documents related to the training for anyone interested in conducting this testing within their jurisdiction.

Training Documents

CONUS Guideline for Evaluating Insecticide Resistance in Vectors (docx)Download
blank bottle data sheet (xls)Download
CDC bottle kit request (docx)Download
Brogdon & McAllister 1998 - Simplification of adult mosquito bioassays (pdf)Download
Hemingway & Ranson 2000 - IR in insect vectors of human disease (pdf)Download
Hemingway, Field, & Vontas 2002 - Overview of insecticide resistance (pdf)Download
Kauffman et al. 2017 - Rearing of Culex spp. and Aedes spp. (pdf)Download
Li, Schuler, & Berenbaum 2007 - Molecular Mechanisms (pdf)Download
McAllister and Brogdon - The Bottle Bioassay (pdf)Download
McAllister Presentation (pdf)Download
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