Evaluation of extracts and oils of tick-repellent plants from Sweden

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-352

  Jaenson, T G T ^a,c   Palsson K ^a,b   Borg Karlson, A K ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acaricides; Biopesticides; Botanical insecticides; Essential oils; Ixodes ricinus; Phytochemicals; Sweden; Terpenes; Tick repellents

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENE; VEGETABLE OIL;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LEDUM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MYRICACEAE; PLANT LEAF; RHODODENDRON; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; IXODES; LEDUM; MYRICA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; RHODODENDRON; SWEDEN; TERPENES;

ACARI; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTHROPODA; ASTERACEAE; ERICACEAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; MYRICA GALE; MYRICACEAE; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PALUSTRE; RHODODENDRON TOMENTOSUM; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 29144473580     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2005.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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