Repellency effect of forty-one essential oils against Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex mosquitoes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 478-490

  Amer, Abdelkrim ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b  

^a OMAR AL MUKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYRIS OIL; BASIL OIL; BLACK PEPPER OIL; BOIS DE ROSE OIL; CAMPHOR; CAROTIN OIL; CATNIP; CATNIP OIL; CEDARWOOD OIL; CHAMOMILE OIL; CITRONELLAL; DILL OIL; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUCALYPTUS OIL; GERANIUM OIL; INSECT REPELLENT; JUNIPERUS OIL; LAVENDER OIL; LEMON OIL; NIAOULI OIL; OLIVE OIL; PEPPERMINT OIL; PLANT EXTRACT; SAGE OIL; SANDALWOOD OIL; SOYBEAN OIL; TAGETES OIL; THYME OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERBENA OIL; VIOLET OIL;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; ENCEPHALITIS; FILARIASIS; GALBANUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LITSEA CUBEBA; MALARIA; MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; VIOLA ODORATA; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT REPELLENTS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLANT OILS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA; LITSEA; LITSEA CUBEBA; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; NEPETA CATARIA; VIOLA ODORATA;

EID: 33748884521     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0184-1     Document Type: Article

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