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    Susceptibility of Triatoma infestans to deltamethrin in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, 2009) Ivan Vieira Sonoda; Grasiele Caldas D'Ávila Pessoa; Mirko Rojas Cortez; João Carlos Pinto Dias; Álvaro J. Romanha; Liléia Diotaiuti
    Strategies for controlling Chagas disease are based on spraying infested houses with pyrethroid insecticides. However, the intense use of these insecticides has promoted resistance of Triatoma infestans and, in Argentina, Bolivia and Southern Brazil, low levels of resistance have been reported. Due to the persistence of T. infestans in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), we evaluated the occurrence of deltamethrin resistance in four strains from different municipalities in comparison to two susceptible strains from Brazil and one resistant strain from Bolivia. The results indicated the absence of resistance in T. infestansfrom RS.