MASTER DISSERTATION: Nzuemi Auriane defended with distinction

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Her master dissertation was under the theme “Study of insecticide resistance in Anopheles and its impact on malaria transmission in Ezenlassi, a village in the Centre Region of Cameroon” On Wednesday 21 February 2024, Miss Auriane Nzuemi’s a Master student at Prof. NDO’s team at CRID, successfully defended her Master’s thesis in “Animal Biology, Parasitology…

PUBLICATION: Vegetable oil-based surfactants are adjuvants that enhance the efficacy of neonicotinoid insecticides and can bias susceptibility testing in adult mosquitoes By Fred A. Ashu and al

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In the present study, using standard test procedures, we report that relatively cheap surfactants such as vegetable oil esters or soap at 0.5 or 1% v/v mixture with neonicotinoids can selectively enhance the potency of neonicotinoids against mosquito populations. This can bias the test incase resistance is present in the tested population at a low…