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Heliyon, 2020 1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT) is a toxic and recalcitrant pesticide that has been greatly used to eradicate malaria mosquitos since the 1940s.
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Malaria Journal, 2017 Background DDT was among the initial persistent organic pollutants listed under the Stockholm Convention and continues to be used for control of malaria and other vector-borne diseases in accordance with its provisions on acceptable purposes.
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Development of a Simple Dipstick Assay for Operational Monitoring of DDT. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 BackgroundIndoor residual spraying (IRS) of DDT is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India. However, the quality of spraying is severely compromised by a lack of affordable field assays to monitor target doses of insecticide.
Hanafy M Ismail +12 more
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Metabolic and target-site mechanisms combine to confer strong DDT resistance in Anopheles gambiae.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The development of resistance to insecticides has become a classic exemplar of evolution occurring within human time scales. In this study we demonstrate how resistance to DDT in the major African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae is a result of both ...
Sara N Mitchell +15 more
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Eclética Química, 2022 Advanced computational tools allowed to study a pure commercial sample of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) prepared in liquid phase in KBr pellets and characterized using FT-IR and GC-MS followed by the application of DDT for molecular docking ...
Tabe Ntui Ntui +8 more
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The Nanotechnology-Based Approaches against Kirsten Rat Sarcoma-Mutated Cancers
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) is a small GTPase which acts as a molecular switch to regulate several cell biological processes including cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Alterations in KRAS have been found in 25% of all human cancers, with
Fernanda Andrade +9 more
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2021 This paper reviews the way in which Spanish agriculture climbed onto the pesticide treadmill. We claim that Fascist policies and expert advice assembled in the early 1940s accelerated the introduction of pesticides into Spanish agriculture and promoted ...
Silvia Pérez-Criado +1 more
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Environmental and Health Risks of Pesticide Use in Ethiopia [PDF]
Journal of Health and Pollution, 2021 Background. There are frequent reports of unsafe pesticide use in many parts of Africa. Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa with around 80% of the population still depending on agriculture which intensively uses pesticides.
Beyene Negatu +2 more
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Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking 2019, 2019 To achieve better network performance, the cloud service providers are widely deploying the ECN-based transport protocols (i.e., DCTCP) in their data center networks (DCN). In multi-tenant environment, however, the newly introduced ECN-enabled TCP greatly impairs the performance of applications with out-dated and miscon figured TCP stacks.
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