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Opportunities for Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as a Potential Mosquitocide

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Mosquito-borne diseases cause life-threatening challenges to public health, and their prevention is the key task of several parasitological techniques. In the past, conventional chemical and biological mosquitocides were highly utilized to regulate the mosquito population. However, these mosquitocidal agents possess drawbacks such as toxicity toward humans and resulted in mosquitoes with high resistance to mosquitocides. The technological improvements in the field of nanoparticles are widely used to overcome the drawback of conventional mosquitocides. Nanoparticles, especially nanosized metal oxides, seem to possess unique properties that can help in the formulation of the enhanced mosquitocidal agent. In this review article, magnesium oxide (MgO) nanoparticles have been proposed as an enhanced mosquitocidal agent and as an alternative to conventional mosquitocides. Additionally, a group of metal oxide nanoparticles is listed as mosquitocidal agents, and the proposed mechanism of MgO nanoparticle toxicity toward life stages of mosquitoes is also discussed.

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Abbreviations

WHO:

World Health Organization

SIT:

Sterile insect technique

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

DDT:

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

DEET:

N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide

DEM:

N-Diethyl-mandelic acid amide

DMP:

Diethyl phthalate

IIT:

Incompatible insect technique

ZnO:

Zinc oxide

CuO:

Copper oxide

TiO2 :

Titanium dioxide

V2O5 :

Vanadium pentoxide

MgO:

Magnesium oxide

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

ATP:

Adenosine triphosphate

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Suresh, M., Jeevanandam, J., Chan, Y.S. et al. Opportunities for Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as a Potential Mosquitocide. BioNanoSci. 10, 292–310 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12668-019-00703-2

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