Larvicidal and ovicidal activity of Cassia fistula Linn. leaf extract against filarial and malarial vector mosquitoes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-292

  Govindarajan, M ^a   Jebanesan, A ^a   Pushpanathan, T ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; SENNA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FILARIA; LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY; LC 50; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OVICIDAL ACTIVITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENNA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CASSIA; CULEX; FILARIASIS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA; OVUM; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; CASSIA FISTULA; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS;

EID: 36749014520     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0761-y     Document Type: Article

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