Nanoparticles as effective acaricides against ticks—A review

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 821-826

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a,b   Maggi, Filippo ^c   Romano, Donato ^b   Stefanini, Cesare ^b,d   Vaseeharan, Baskaralingam ^e   Kumar, Suresh ^f   Higuchi, Akon ^g   Alarfaj, Abdullah A ^h   Mehlhorn, Heinz ⁱ   Canale, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^e ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acaricide; Bionanoscience; Green fabrication; Hard ticks; Nanopesticide; Nanosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; NANOPARTICLE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SYNTHESIS; TICK; TOXICITY TESTING; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECT; IXODIDAE; PROCEDURES; TICK CONTROL;

ACARICIDES; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; IXODIDAE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; TICK CONTROL;

EID: 85028527132     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.08.004     Document Type: Review

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