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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences E. Medical Entom. & Parasitology,
Egypt
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Sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasi Scopoli was considered one of the
dangerous medical insects that transmits a lot of diseases such as
Leishmaniasis disease around the world. In Egypt, synthetic pyrethroids and
organophosphorous insecticides were the main chemicals control methods for
P. papatasi. So, the samples of adults and 4th larvae were collected from two
different localities (10th of Ramadan city and Al- Quareen city), in addition,
lab. strain. The common insecticides used synthetic pyrethroids (deltamethrin
and lambda-cyhalothrin) and organophosphorous (chlorpyrifos and
malathion) and diagnosed this tolerance biochemically. Respecting the
biochemical diagnoses, electrophoresis protein separation utilizing sodium
dodecyl sulphate- polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), some
target and detoxifying enzymes acetylcholinesterase (AChE), general
esterases (GES), cytochrome-P450 (C-450), glutathione-S-transferase (GST)}
were characterized. Also, (amylase, invertase, alkaline phosphatase, acid
phosphatase and total lipids) were determined. The obtained results showed
that the 4th larvae of P. papatasi collected from the 10th of Ramadan locality
was the most tolerant to cholorpyrifos (2.79- fold), deltamethrin (2.21 - fold),
malathion (1.76- fold) and lambda-cyhalothrin (1.16- fold) compared with the
laboratory strain, while in adults the most tolerant was lambda-cyhalothrin
(2.81-fold), cholorpyrifos (2.16-fold), deltamethrin (1.65-fold) and malathion
(1.43). It was observed that there was a significant difference between the
insect populations, the presence of different proteins bands in 10th of
Ramadan population tolerant to these insecticides, followed by Al-Quareen
city population compared with laboratory strain. Regarding the target and
metabolic enzymes, data found that there was a highly significant increase in
these metabolic enzymes activities (GES, P-450 and GST) in 10th of
Ramadan locality, followed by Al- Quareen locality compared with
laboratory strain in adults and larvae, while, other biochemical constituents,
Total lipids, trehalase, alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, amylase, invertase
activities and their roles in energies for larvae and adults of P. papatasi showed a
reduction. Generally, the results showed that there was a highly significant
reduction in most of these energies enzymes. So, the current study
recommended avoiding intensive insecticides used and randomly used, which
led to increasing insecticides tolerance/ insecticides development in these the
dangerous medical pests transmitting the epidemic diseases and human
disaster.
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