Nature helps: From research to products against blood-sucking arthropods

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1483-1487

  Semmler, Margit ^a   Abdel Ghaffar, Fathy ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled ^b   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BAYREPEL; BIOCIDE; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; EUCALYPTUS EXTRACT; ICARIDIN; INSECT REPELLENT; LICE STOP; MITE STOP; MOSQUITO STOP; MOSQUITO STOP BOX; PICKSAN LOUSE STOP; PICKSAN LUIZENSTOP; PICKSAN MUGGENSTOP; PICKSAN MUGGENSTOP DOOSJE; PICKSAN TEKENSTOP; PLANT EXTRACT; SALTIDIN; TICK STOP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS EXTRACT; VITICKS COOL; VITICKS COOL PLUS; WASH AWAY LOUSE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTHROPOD; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DERMACENTOR; DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOPARASITE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; AZADIRACHTA; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG EVALUATION; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECTICIDES; PLANT EXTRACTS; VITEX;

ARTHROPODA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS;

EID: 70350212642     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1634-3     Document Type: Review

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