Abstract
Since 1976, DDT @1gm/sq meter being sprayed to control Kala azar in India. Government of India along with Government of Bihar have decided to use synthetic pyrethroid insecticides in order to eliminate kala azar from India by 2016. A study was therefore conducted in 2015 in Bihar, selecting 13 villages of four highly kala azar endemic districts like Siwan, Samastipore, Muzaffarpore and Katihar in order to note baseline susceptibility status of commonly used synthetic pyrethroids like Deltamethrin, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Alpha-cypermethrin to Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of Kala azar in India. The test was conducted as per standard WHO technique using WHO test kits. Adult Phlebotomus argentipes were found highly susceptible to those insecticides.
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