Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector
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, w...
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| author | Dieng, Hamady Rajasaygar, Sudha Abu Hassan, Ahmad Hamdan, Ahmad Che Salmah, Md Rawi Wan Fatma, Zuharah Satho, Tomomitsu Miake, Fumio Fukumitsu, Yuki Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad Idris, Abd Ghani Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid Sazaly, AbuBakar |
| author_facet | Dieng, Hamady Rajasaygar, Sudha Abu Hassan, Ahmad Hamdan, Ahmad Che Salmah, Md Rawi Wan Fatma, Zuharah Satho, Tomomitsu Miake, Fumio Fukumitsu, Yuki Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad Idris, Abd Ghani Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid Sazaly, AbuBakar |
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| description | 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, which may act as larvicidal
agents. We assessed Aedes aegypti vulnerability to Marlboro butts during its development. Overall, CBs showed insecticidal activities against larvae. At early phases of development, mortality rates were much higher in two CBs solution (2CBSol) and 3CBSol microcosms (MICRs). Larval survival gradually decreased with development in 1CBSol-MICRs. However, in great presence of CBs, mortality was high even for the late developmental stages. These results suggest that A. aegypti larvae are vulnerable to CB presence in their habitats, but this effect was seen most during the early developmental phases and in the presence of increased amounts of cigarette remnants. CB filters are being used as raw material in many sectors, i.e., brick, art, fashion, plastic industries, as a practical solution to the pollution problem, the observed butt waste toxicity to mosquito larvae open new avenues for the identification of novel insecticide products. |
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| spelling | unimas-99092016-04-14T00:42:37Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9909/ Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector Dieng, Hamady Rajasaygar, Sudha Abu Hassan, Ahmad Hamdan, Ahmad Che Salmah, Md Rawi Wan Fatma, Zuharah Satho, Tomomitsu Miake, Fumio Fukumitsu, Yuki Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad Idris, Abd Ghani Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid Sazaly, AbuBakar GE Environmental Sciences 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, which may act as larvicidal agents. We assessed Aedes aegypti vulnerability to Marlboro butts during its development. Overall, CBs showed insecticidal activities against larvae. At early phases of development, mortality rates were much higher in two CBs solution (2CBSol) and 3CBSol microcosms (MICRs). Larval survival gradually decreased with development in 1CBSol-MICRs. However, in great presence of CBs, mortality was high even for the late developmental stages. These results suggest that A. aegypti larvae are vulnerable to CB presence in their habitats, but this effect was seen most during the early developmental phases and in the presence of increased amounts of cigarette remnants. CB filters are being used as raw material in many sectors, i.e., brick, art, fashion, plastic industries, as a practical solution to the pollution problem, the observed butt waste toxicity to mosquito larvae open new avenues for the identification of novel insecticide products. Elsevier B.V. 2013-12 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9909/1/Turning%20cigarette%20butt%20waste%20into%20an%20alternative%20control%20tool%20againstan%20insecticide-resistant%20mosquito%20vector%20%28abstract%29.pdf Dieng, Hamady and Rajasaygar, Sudha and Abu Hassan, Ahmad and Hamdan, Ahmad and Che Salmah, Md Rawi and Wan Fatma, Zuharah and Satho, Tomomitsu and Miake, Fumio and Fukumitsu, Yuki and Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad and Idris, Abd Ghani and Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales and Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid and Sazaly, AbuBakar (2013) Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector. Acta Tropica, 128 (3). pp. 584-590. ISSN 0001-706X http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0001706X13002180/1-s2.0-S0001706X13002180-main.pdf?_tid=57db921c-94e3-11e5-ab37-00000aab0f27&acdnat=1448614165_cb1fa98630a87a80189863b8755da9b9 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.08.013 |
| spellingShingle | GE Environmental Sciences Dieng, Hamady Rajasaygar, Sudha Abu Hassan, Ahmad Hamdan, Ahmad Che Salmah, Md Rawi Wan Fatma, Zuharah Satho, Tomomitsu Miake, Fumio Fukumitsu, Yuki Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad Idris, Abd Ghani Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid Sazaly, AbuBakar Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title | Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title_full | Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title_fullStr | Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title_short | Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| title_sort | turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector |
| topic | GE Environmental Sciences |
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