Insecticide susceptibility profile of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae), in north-central Nigeria.

摘要

Malaria remains the most important and endemic parasitic disease all over Nigeria, with >90% of ~140 million population is at risk of infection. It accounts for 63% of the diseases reported in health care facilities across the six geographical zones of the country, costing the country >1 billion USDollars annually; thus, it constitutes a huge burden to the already depressed Nigerian economy. This unacceptably high malarial burden could have been informed, by the unfortunate incidental occurrence of the most efficient malarial pathogen/vector combination complex, i.e. Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae complex, supported by optimum environmental conditions across the entire country. The continued desire to abate this heavy burden resulted in the initiation of aggressive control interventions directed at the parasite and vectors.