The toxic effect of chitosan/metal-impregnated textile to synanthropic mites

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Authors	RÁHEĽ Jozef JONÁŠOVÁ Eva NESVORNÁ Marta KLUBAL Radek ERBAN Tomáš HUBERT Jan
Year of publication	2012
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Pest Management Science
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	Abstrakt na stránce vydavatele
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.3428
Field	Food production
Keywords	dust mite; allergen; control; chitosan; Ag+; microorganism
Description	The acaricidal effect of plasma made textile coating of chitosan and chitosan/metal adducts with Ag+, Zn2+ and Cu2+ was tested in laboratory experiments against species of Acarus siro, Dermatophagoides farinae, D. pteronyssinus and Tyrophagus putrescentiae. The mortality was compared after 24 h of exposure of mites to plasma-treated textiles. The results support a great potential of chitosan/Ag+ fibres in acaricidal materials and/or mite protective food packages.
Related projects:	In-line plasma-treatments and surface nano-treatments of nonwoven fabrics CEPLANT - Regionální VaV centrum pro nízkonákladové plazmové a nanotechnologické povrchové úpravy