Pirimiphos-Methyl Resistance Status of Field Populations of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) From Grand Tunis Area, Northeast Tunisian

Mosquito species are responsible for the transmission of many parasitic diseases and their control leads to the phenomenon of resistance to insecticides. Five Culex pipiens samples were collected from various localities of Grand Tunis area, Northeast Tunisia, between June 2003 and November 2005. All the studied samples were resistant to pirimiphos methyl (organophosphorus insecticide). Our results showed the implication of insensitive acetylcholinesterase and overproduced esterases in the résistance of the Tunisian populations of Culex pipiens. Results were discussed in relation to resistance mechanism. *Corresponding author: Tabbabi A, Laboratory of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine of Monastir, Monastir University, 5019, Monastir, Tunisia, Tel: 73500276; Fax: 73500278; E-mail: [email protected] Received April 17, 2017; Accepted April 28, 2017; Published May 05, 2017 Citation: Tabbabi A, Daaboub J, Laamari A, Cheikh RB, Cheikh HB (2017) Pirimiphos-Methyl Resistance Status of Field Populations of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) From Grand Tunis Area, Northeast Tunisia. Hereditary Genet 6: 175. doi:10.4172/2161-1041.1000175 Copyright: © 2016 Tabbabi A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.