Laboratory assessment of the molluscicidal and cercaricidal activities of the Egyptian weed, Solanum nigrum L.

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 931-937

  Ahmed, A H ^a   Ramzy, R M R ^b  

^a Nutrition Institute   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCACIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; SOLANUM ALKALOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRY POWDER; EGYPT; EXPOSURE; FASCIOLIASIS; FRUIT; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LABORATORY TEST; LD 50; LYMNAEA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALIA; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA ALEXANDRINA; BULINUS; BULINUS TRUNCATUS; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA NATALEUSIS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SOLANUM; SOLANUM NIGRUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031459780     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813221     Document Type: Article

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