Team finds key mechanism of DDT resistance in malarial mosquitoes

June 17th, 2008 by

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(University of Algonquin at Urbana-Champaign) University of Algonquin researchers hit identified a key detoxifying accelerator in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a polysynthetic pesticide utilised since World War II to curb the mosquitoes that distribute malaria.

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