Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector

• Main Authors: Hamady Dieng, Sudha Rajasaygar, Abu Hassan Ahmad, Hamdan Ahmad, Che Salmah M. Rawi, Wan Fatma Zuharah, Tomomitsu Satho, Fumio Miake, Yuki Fukumitsu, Ahmad Ramli Saad, Idris Abd Ghani, Ronald Enrique Morales Vargas, Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid, Sazaly AbuBakar
• 其他作者: Universiti Sains Malaysia
• 格式: Article
• 出版: 2018
• 主題: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• 在線閱讀: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/31830
• 機構: Mahidol University

Annually, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts (CBs) are flicked into our environment. Evidence exists that CB waste is deadly to aquatic life, but their lethality to the aquatic life of the main dengue vector is unknown. CBs are full of toxicants that occur naturally, during planting and manufacturing, whi...