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Wood O, Hanrahan S, Coetzee M, et al. Cuticle thickening associated with pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus. Parasit Vectors. 2010;3:67doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-67.
Wood, O., Hanrahan, S., Coetzee, M., Koekemoer, L., & Brooke, B. (2010). Cuticle thickening associated with pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus. Parasites & vectors, 367. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-67
Wood, Or, et al. "Cuticle thickening associated with pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus." Parasites & vectors vol. 3 (2010): 67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-67
Wood O, Hanrahan S, Coetzee M, Koekemoer L, Brooke B. Cuticle thickening associated with pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus. Parasit Vectors. 2010 Aug 04;3:67. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-67. PMID: 20684757; PMCID: PMC2924294.
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Parasit Vectors. 2010 Aug 04;3:67. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-67.

Cuticle thickening associated with pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus.

Parasites & vectors

Or Wood, S Hanrahan, M Coetzee, Ll Koekemoer, Bd Brooke

Affiliations

  1. Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa. [email protected].

PMID: 20684757 PMCID: PMC2924294 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-67

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Malaria in South Africa is primarily transmitted by Anopheles funestus Giles. Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in An. funestus in northern Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa, and in neighbouring areas of southern Mozambique enabled populations of this species to increase their ranges into areas where pyrethroids were being exclusively used for malaria control. Pyrethroid resistance in southern African An. funestus is primarily conferred by monooxygenase enzyme metabolism. However, selection for this resistance mechanism is likely to have occurred in conjunction with other factors that improve production of the resistance phenotype. A strong candidate is cuticle thickening. This is because thicker cuticles lead to slower rates of insecticide absorption, which is likely to increase the efficiency of metabolic detoxification.

RESULTS: Measures of mean cuticle thickness in laboratory samples of female An. funestus were obtained using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). These females were drawn from a laboratory colony carrying the pyrethroid resistance phenotype at a stable rate, but not fixed. Prior to cuticle thickness measurements, these samples were characterised as either more or less tolerant to permethrin exposure in one experiment, and either permethrin resistant or susceptible in another experiment. There was a significant and positive correlation between mean cuticle thickness and time to knock down during exposure to permethrin. Mean cuticle thickness was significantly greater in those samples characterised either as more tolerant or resistant to permethrin exposure compared to those characterised as either less tolerant or permethrin susceptible. Further, insecticide susceptible female An. funestus have thicker cuticles than their male counterparts.

CONCLUSION: Pyrethroid tolerant or resistant An. funestus females are likely to have thicker cuticles than less tolerant or susceptible females, and females generally have thicker cuticles than males. In pyrethroid resistant An. funestus, this increase in cuticle thickness is likely to have developed as an auxiliary to the primary mode of pyrethroid resistance which is based on enzyme-mediated detoxification.

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