Graduate student Ndey Bassin Jobe, Assistant Professor Silvie Huijben and Assistant Professor Krijn Paaijmans of Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences and Center for Evolution and Medicine recently published a personal view in The Lancet Planetary Health journal in which they discuss how insecticides used in malaria control not only affect malaria-carrying mosquitoes but can also lead to insecticide resistance in other arthropods, several of which transmit overlooked and dangerous tropical diseases.
Read more in this ASU News article.