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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9909/
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