Investigating the Potential of X-Ray-Based Cancer Treatment Equipment for the Sterile Insect Technique in Aedes aegypti Control Programs
Linmin Wang, Tingting Liu, Liang Xiao, Haiting Zhang, Cunchen Wang, Weixian Zhang, Mao Zhang, Ying Wang, Shengqun Deng, Athanasios Giatropoulos · 2024
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Linmin Wang and co-authors ask, in a 2024 study, whether hospital cancer-treatment machines can sterilize male mosquitoes for release programs. The sterile insect technique floods an area with sterile males so females mate fruitlessly. It needs radiation, and the usual gamma sources are scarce.
The team used a common radiotherapy accelerator that makes X-rays. They measured emergence, survival, sterility, and mating competitiveness of the treated males. Egg output and hatch rates from their mates completed the picture. Treated males must still court successfully, or the method fails in the field. Showing clinic machines can do the job would widen mosquito control to places without gamma facilities.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Linmin Wang, Tingting Liu, Liang Xiao, Haiting Zhang, Cunchen Wang, Weixian Zhang, Mao Zhang, Ying Wang, Shengqun Deng, Athanasios Giatropoulos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |