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Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols

BACKGROUND: Insecticides are critical components of malaria control programmes. In a variety of insect species, temperature plays a fundamental role in determining the outcome of insecticide exposure. However, surprisingly little is known about how temperature affects the efficacy of chemical interv...

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Autores principales: Glunt, Katey D, Paaijmans, Krijn P, Read, Andrew F, Thomas, Matthew B
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25187231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-350
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Paaijmans, Krijn P
Read, Andrew F
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description BACKGROUND: Insecticides are critical components of malaria control programmes. In a variety of insect species, temperature plays a fundamental role in determining the outcome of insecticide exposure. However, surprisingly little is known about how temperature affects the efficacy of chemical interventions against malaria vectors. METHODS: Anopheles stephensi, with no recent history of insecticide exposure, were exposed to the organophosphate malathion or the pyrethroid permethrin at 12, 18, 22, or 26°C, using the WHO tube resistance-monitoring assay. To evaluate the effect of pre-exposure temperature on susceptibility, adult mosquitoes were kept at 18 or 26°C until just before exposure, and then moved to the opposite temperature. Twenty-four hours after exposure, mosquitoes exposed at <26°C were moved to 26°C and recovery was observed. Susceptibility was assessed in terms of survival 24 hours after exposure; data were analysed as generalized linear models using a binomial error distribution and logit link function. RESULTS: Lowering the exposure temperature from the laboratory standard 26°C can strongly reduce the susceptibility of female An. stephensi to the WHO resistance-discriminating concentration of malathion (χ(2)(df=3) = 29.0, p < 0.001). While the susceptibility of these mosquitoes to the resistance-discriminating concentration of permethrin was not as strongly temperature-dependent, recovery was observed in mosquitoes moved from 12, 18 or 22°C to 26°C 24 hours after exposure. For permethrin especially, the thermal history of the mosquito was important in determining the ultimate outcome of insecticide exposure for survival (permethrin: pre-exposure temperature: F(1,29) = 14.2, p < 0.001; exposure temp: F(1,29) = 1.1, p = 0.3; concentration: F(1,29) = 85.2, p < 0.001; exposure temp x conc: F(1,29) = 5.8, p = 0.02). The effect of acclimation temperature on malathion susceptibility depended on the exposure temperature (exposure temp: F(1,79) = 98.4, p < 0.001; pre-exposure temp: F(1,79) = 0.03, p = 0.9; pre-exp temp x exp temp F(1,79) = 6.0, p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: A single population of An. stephensi could be classified by WHO criteria as susceptible or resistant to a given chemical, depending on the temperature at which the mosquitoes were exposed. Investigating the performance of vector control tools under different temperature conditions will augment the ability to better understand the epidemiological significance of insecticide resistance and select the most effective products for a given environment.
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spelling pubmed-41629602014-09-14 Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols Glunt, Katey D Paaijmans, Krijn P Read, Andrew F Thomas, Matthew B Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Insecticides are critical components of malaria control programmes. In a variety of insect species, temperature plays a fundamental role in determining the outcome of insecticide exposure. However, surprisingly little is known about how temperature affects the efficacy of chemical interventions against malaria vectors. METHODS: Anopheles stephensi, with no recent history of insecticide exposure, were exposed to the organophosphate malathion or the pyrethroid permethrin at 12, 18, 22, or 26°C, using the WHO tube resistance-monitoring assay. To evaluate the effect of pre-exposure temperature on susceptibility, adult mosquitoes were kept at 18 or 26°C until just before exposure, and then moved to the opposite temperature. Twenty-four hours after exposure, mosquitoes exposed at <26°C were moved to 26°C and recovery was observed. Susceptibility was assessed in terms of survival 24 hours after exposure; data were analysed as generalized linear models using a binomial error distribution and logit link function. RESULTS: Lowering the exposure temperature from the laboratory standard 26°C can strongly reduce the susceptibility of female An. stephensi to the WHO resistance-discriminating concentration of malathion (χ(2)(df=3) = 29.0, p < 0.001). While the susceptibility of these mosquitoes to the resistance-discriminating concentration of permethrin was not as strongly temperature-dependent, recovery was observed in mosquitoes moved from 12, 18 or 22°C to 26°C 24 hours after exposure. For permethrin especially, the thermal history of the mosquito was important in determining the ultimate outcome of insecticide exposure for survival (permethrin: pre-exposure temperature: F(1,29) = 14.2, p < 0.001; exposure temp: F(1,29) = 1.1, p = 0.3; concentration: F(1,29) = 85.2, p < 0.001; exposure temp x conc: F(1,29) = 5.8, p = 0.02). The effect of acclimation temperature on malathion susceptibility depended on the exposure temperature (exposure temp: F(1,79) = 98.4, p < 0.001; pre-exposure temp: F(1,79) = 0.03, p = 0.9; pre-exp temp x exp temp F(1,79) = 6.0, p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: A single population of An. stephensi could be classified by WHO criteria as susceptible or resistant to a given chemical, depending on the temperature at which the mosquitoes were exposed. Investigating the performance of vector control tools under different temperature conditions will augment the ability to better understand the epidemiological significance of insecticide resistance and select the most effective products for a given environment. BioMed Central 2014-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4162960/ /pubmed/25187231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-350 Text en © Glunt et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Paaijmans, Krijn P
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Thomas, Matthew B
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title_full Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols
title_fullStr Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols
title_full_unstemmed Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols
title_short Environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using WHOPES protocols
title_sort environmental temperatures significantly change the impact of insecticides measured using whopes protocols
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25187231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-350
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