Comparative toxicity of fumigants and a phosphine synergist using a novel containment chamber for the safe generation of concentrated phosphine gas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Valmas, Nicholas ^a   Ebert, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE; DIMETHYL DISULPHIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FUMIGANT; MALEIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIMETHYL DISULFIDE; DISULFIDE; MALEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; TOXICITY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SCREENING; FUMIGATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISULFIDES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FUMIGATION; HUMANS; MALEATES; PHOSPHINES;

EID: 37349017046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000130     Document Type: Article

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