Potential of Origanum compactum as a cercaricide in Morocco

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 587-593

  Lahlou, M ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; FLAVONOID; MOLLUSCACIDE; ORIGANUM COMPACTUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BULINUS; CERCARIA; CULEX PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SELECTIVITY; FISH; IMMOBILIZATION; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM;

ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; BULINUS; BULINUS TRUNCATUS; CULEX PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; LAMIACEAE; MELANOGASTER; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM COMPACTUM; SALINA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0036743818     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125001447     Document Type: Article

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