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Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid...

Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid...

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Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid environments regardless of the local availability of favoured sugar-source blossoms

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Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid environments regardless of the local availability of favoured sugar-source blossoms

Publisher

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Journal title

Malaria journal, 2012-02, Vol.11 (1), p.31-31, Article 31

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English

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England: BioMed Central Ltd

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Contents

Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods are a new and promising "attract and kill" strategy for mosquito control. Sugar-feeding female and male mosquitoes attracted to ATSB solutions, either sprayed on plants or in bait stations, ingest an incorporated low-risk toxin such as boric acid and are killed. This field study in the arid malaria-free oa...

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Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods decimate populations of Anopheles malaria vectors in arid environments regardless of the local availability of favoured sugar-source blossoms

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_df7a3a2731d64d60827b34b4064877b7

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_df7a3a2731d64d60827b34b4064877b7

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ISSN

1475-2875

E-ISSN

1475-2875

DOI

10.1186/1475-2875-11-31

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