Using charcoal as base material reduces mosquito coil emissions of toxins

Mosquito coil emissions and health implications.

Burning mosquito coils indoors generates smoke that can control mosquitoes effectively. This practice is currently used in numerous households in Asia, Africa, and South America. However, the smoke may contain pollutants of health concern. We conducted the present study to characterize the emissions from four common brands of mosquito coils from China and two common brands from Malaysia. We use...

Mosquito Resistance to Bacterial Larvicidal Toxins

Insecticide resistance to the microbial insecticides Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) and Bacillus sphaericus (Bs) represents a serious threat to their success. Available evidence indicates that the risk for resistance to Bti is low due to the makeup of its parasporal crystal, which contains Cyt1A, Cry4A, Cry4B, and Cry11A toxic proteins. Disrupting the toxin complex in Bti enabl...

Mosquito coil (Allethrin) poisoining in two brothers.

polyamide as a denture base material: a literature review

the purpose of this article was to review the biocompatibility, physical, and mechanical properties of the polyamide denture base materials. an electronic search of scientific papers from 1990-2014 was carried out using pubmed, scopus and wiley inter science engines using the search terms “nylon denture base” and “polyamide denture base”. searching the key words yielded a total of 82 articles. ...

Bacillus sphaericus as a mosquito pathogen: properties of the organism and its toxins.

In the course of sporulation, Bacillus sphaericus produces an inclusion body which is toxic to a variety of mosquito larvae. In this review we discuss the general biology of this species and concentrate on the genetics and physiology of toxin production and its processing in the midgut of the larval host. The larvicide of B. sphaericus is unique in that it consists of two proteins of 51 and 42 ...