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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 468-474Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-40.4.468
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head louse; body louse; pediculicide; insecticide-resistance; para-orthologous sodium; channelgene
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The problem of pyrethroid-resistance in bead lice, Pediculus humanus capitis (De Geer), is growing worldwide, and an insensitive sodium channel is suspected as the major mechanism of this resistance. We sequenced an open reading frame (ORF) encoding for the para-orthologous sodium channel from an insecticide-susceptible strain of the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus (L.), based on conserved peptide sequences and a known partial gene sequence. Phenothrin-susceptible and -resistant head louse colonies from Japanese were individually analyzed for point mutations of the sodium channel cDNA; susceptible bead and body lice differed in double homozygous synonymous substitutions. The resistant bead lice shared 23 base substitutions homozygously, in which four resulted in amino acid substitutions: D11E in the N-terminal inner-membrane segment; M850T in the outer-membrane loop between segments four and five of domain II; T952I and L955 F in the trans-membrane segment five of domain II. The latter two substitutions coincided with those of pyrethroid-resistant head lice in the U.S. and U.K. (Lee et al. 2000), within the available published information on the peptide sequences. The potential mechanisms of head louse pyrethroid-resistance are discussed based on the four structural changes of the target molecule.
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