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Iain
Moderator
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 16 Dec 2008 : 10:56:27
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I went to a seminar yesterday at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and saw a number of familiar faces there.
We had been invited by the IVCC (Innovative Vector Control Consortium) that is based there to see whether some of the projects that they are involved with had any interest in 'main stream' pest control. [The IVCC was set up to try and develop new ways of combatting vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever and is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates].
It was a very useful meeting in their brand new and very impressive building. Perhaps the most relevant opportunity to come out of it was the possibility of them supplying either self-test kits or a testing service to see whether insect samples were from populations resistant to current insecticides.
Apparently they already have such kits available for mosquitoes which are relatively simple to use. Would such kits be of interest to us, they asked?
Not too many details were forthcoming and no doubt the devil will be in the detail as to how much information will be forthcoming and what the costs would be, but in general terms, we thought it could be quite useful.
If, for instance, you came across a situation where the treatment you were using didn't seem to be working, you could carry out a test (or have it done for you) which would show whether you really were up against a resistant population - or you just were not doing the treatment properly.
Can you see possible uses for either a diy kit or an independent service for this sort of testing?
These particular tests are for insects only.
Similar tests for rodents do exist, but linking DNA anomalies to specific types of anticoagulant resistance do not yet exist. |
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DaveM
Junior Member
Canada
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Posted - 16 Dec 2008 : 14:18:26
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Iain,
Do you know that there are a range of resistance testing kits available through the World Health Organization that includes testing for bedbugs, cockroaches and rodents in addition to the usual mosquito testing kits. Here is the link http://www.who.int/whopes/resistance/en/WHO_CDS_CPE_PVC_2001.2.pdf These tests, though are purely bioassays against active ingredients. There's no detection of mechanism or fancy DNA stuff.
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Resistance testing kits
