Mosquito control with green nanopesticides: towards the One Health approach? A review of non-target effects

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 10184-10206

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a   Maggi, Filippo ^b   Pavela, Roman ^c   Murugan, Kadarkarai ^d   Govindarajan, Marimuthu ^e   Vaseeharan, Baskaralingam ^f   Petrelli, Riccardo ^b   Cappellacci, Loredana ^b   Kumar, Suresh ^g   Hofer, Anders ^h   Youssefi, Mohammad Reza ⁱ   Alarfaj, Abdullah A ^j   Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^k   Higuchi, Akon ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^g Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology ^*  (Malaysia)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^j KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^k NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

Arbovirus; Biosafety; Dengue; Genotoxicity; Japanese encephalitis; Malaria; Nanosynthesis; West Nile virus; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; GENOTOXICITY; MOSQUITO; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PESTICIDE; SAFETY; VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS;

ANIMAL; DENGUE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MALARIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; ONE HEALTH; PROCEDURES; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DENGUE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; ONE HEALTH; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85026436747     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9752-4     Document Type: Article

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