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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 96 - 97
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078052
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An Overview of Insecticide Resistance

Janet Hemingway,1 Linda Field,2 John Vontas3

Insecticide resistance poses a serious threat to current malaria control efforts. The Anopheles gambiae genome will enable identification of new resistance genes and will provide new molecular targets for the design of more effective insecticides.

1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
2 Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, UK.
3 Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

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