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1 January 2013 Larvicidal Activity of Synthetic Disinfectants and Antibacterial Soaps Against Mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Rui-De Xue, Whitney A. Qualls
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Abstract

Seven commercial synthetic disinfectant and antibacterial soap products were evaluated as mosquito larvicides against Culex quinquefasciatus Say in the laboratory. Three aerosol disinfectant products, at 0.01% concentration resulted in 58–76% mortality of laboratory-reared fourth instar mosquito larvae at 24 h posttreatment. Four antibacterial soap products at 0.0001% concentration resulted in 88–100% larval mortality at 24 h posttreatment. The active ingredient of the antibacterial soap products, triclosan (0.1%) resulted in 74% larval mortality. One of the antibacterial soap products, Equate caused the highest mosquito larval mortality in the laboratory. Equate antibacterial soap at the application rate of 0.000053 ppm resulted in 90% mortality of the introduced fourth instar larvae of Cx. quinquesfasicatus in the outdoor pools. In laboratory and field bioassays, the antibacterial soap resulted in significant larval mosquito mortality.

© 2013 Entomological Society of America
Rui-De Xue and Whitney A. Qualls "Larvicidal Activity of Synthetic Disinfectants and Antibacterial Soaps Against Mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)," Journal of Medical Entomology 50(1), 137-139, (1 January 2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/ME12092
Received: 17 April 2012; Accepted: 1 October 2012; Published: 1 January 2013
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KEYWORDS
Culex quinquefasciatus
mosquito control
soap
toxicity
Triclosan
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