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Microbial Nanoparticles as Mosquito Control Agents

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Nanoparticles in the Fight Against Parasites

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Abstract

In recent past, the nano-material research is one of the burgeoning field having influence Medicine, Biology and Agriculture. The novel properties of nanoparticles possess enormous potential to delivering capping substances across the cytoplasmic membrane by active transport. It also considered as one of the prime technology of the twenty-first century and made a foot-print for scientists those who interested on green nanoparicles. The manipulation of matters at a nano scale which creates much new innovation and it unique properties could be used to deliver the materials in a specific target sites. However much burdened to use of other chemical substances are hazardous to nature and lead to bio-magnification in living system. In view of that, there is an urgent need to widen environmentally benign procedures could be adopted and explore the unravel living microorganisms like fungi, algae, bacteria, and viruses have been used for the production of proteins and other compounds elicit during the multiplications which could used be as capping agents with metallic nanoparticles to deliver the specific domains. The rapid advancing nanotechnology is recently envisaged in the field of plant secondary metabolites and non-nutrient proteins derived from plants can be used for metallic nanoparticle synthesis which aids to most effective on control the human mosquito vectors and agricultural pests.

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Balasubramanian, C., Banu, A.N. (2016). Microbial Nanoparticles as Mosquito Control Agents. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Nanoparticles in the Fight Against Parasites. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25292-6_6

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