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ALTHOUGH authenticated cases of physiological resistance to insecticides on the part of anopheline mosquitoes have been reported from Europe1, North America2 and the Far East3, no such occurrence has so far been reported from Africa. The following preliminary observations appear to constitute a prima facie case of such resistance and it has therefore been considered desirable to place them on record.
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ELLIOTT, R., RAMAKRISHNA, V. Insecticide Resistance in Anopheles gambiae Giles. Nature 177, 532–533 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177532a0
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