In Tanzania, malaria is a major public health problem that can lead to fatality to an individual especially children under 5 years old. Malaria is transmitted from man to man by the infection agent through the anopheles mosquitoes. The main malaria vector in Tanzania is Anopheles gambiae. Three areas of Tanzania showing usage of insecticides for vector control to reduce the population of anopheles mosquitoes so that malaria can be prevent. The current use of insecticides for vector control is believed to be main cause of resistance in mosquito populations.
Insecticide effectiveness is now threatened by the rise of target populations after intensive usage for few years. In Tanzania, reports of insecticides in malaria vectors were rare, but now new case was identified which were the rise of pyrethroid and DDT resistance in several places. A survey that is made on 2011 states that Anopheles gambiae were resistance to DDT and pyrethroid was rising in several area in Tanzania but it still susceptible to insecticides sush as carbamates and organophosphates.
Resistance has developed to every chemical class of insecticides like in anopheles mosquitoes. Insecticides resistance can be defined as the ability of a significant portion of a pest population to survive from the insecticides that can causes a genetic change in response to selection. The resistant mosquitoes will reproduce and the genetic changes are transferred from parents to offspring and caused them to become numerous within the population. There are some major factors that influence resistance development in the Anopheles gambie.
The major factors that influence resistance development are application frequency, dosage and persistence of effect, rate of reproduction, popu...
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...in the overall population. Area that is treated with insecticides would have higher risk of developing resistance as few untreated mosquitoes would join the treated population. The bigger the population, the greater the chance of the resistance will develop. So, it is important to estimate the immigration of untreated mosquitoes and the risk of insecticide resistance developing should be considered in vector control management.
The other factors that can influence resistance development are occurrence of resistance genes. Resistance can occur when one of the anopheles mosquitoes have a gene for resistance inside their body. The effectiveness of the gene can give effect to the degree of resistance and the speed in developing in the mosquitoes’ population. In general, the greater the protection provided by the gene, the greater the frequency of the resistance gene.
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As time has progressed, there has always been an overarching need for high amounts of crop production throughout the world. With the rapid rate of population growth, the need for crops and other sources of nutrients is only increasing. In order to meet these high demands and increase yields, farmers and other agriculturalists have started implementing the use of pesticides. These chemical mixtures are being used in order to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pests from destroying growing crops. However, using pesticides on crops can create massive amounts of pollution, negatively affect an individual’s health, and can spark biodiversity loss within an ecosystem. According to Michael C.R. Alavanja, “Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used within the United States (US) each year and approximately 5.6 billion pounds are used worldwide”. With all this in mind, it is clear that pesticides should not be made available to farmers and agriculturalists, and should
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Frequency of application is defined as how often an insecticide is used that influence resistance development. Resistance can happen in many ways such as met...
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