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Larvicidal activity of the photosensitive insecticides, methylene blue and rose bengal, in <i>Aedes aegypti</i> and <i>Anopheles gambiae</i> mosquitoes
2023-07-01
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>BACKGROUND</h4> Insecticides are critical for controlling mosquito populations and mitigating the spread of vector–borne disease, but their overuse has selected for resistant populations. A promising alternative to classical chemical insecticides is photosensitive molecules—here called photosensitive insecticides or PSIs—that when ingested and activated by light, generate broadly toxic reac...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 623e3494-874b-5961-bcf8-1ddbb26ea81c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.06.30.547250
