Effects of low-powered RF sweep between 0.01-20 GHz on female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes: A collective behaviour analysis

• Main Authors: Poh, A.H., Moghavvemi, Mahmoud, Shafiei, M.M., Leong, C.S., Lau, Yee Ling, Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Bakhtiari, M., Abdulla, M.A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: R Medicine; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18427/; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178766
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

There are many products claiming to be an electronic solution towards repelling mosquitoes. Several reviews were published in debunking these claims. However, there is a lack of a systematic study on effects of electromagnetic (EM) or more specifically, radio frequency (RF) waves against mosquitoes...