Laboratory evaluation of traditionally used plant-based insect repellent against the malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis patton (Diptera: Culicidae)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1217-1223

  Karunamoorthi, Kaliyaperumal ^a,b   Ilango, Kandan ^c   Murugan, Kadarkarai ^b  

^a Unit of Vector Biology and Control   (Ethiopia)

^b BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CYMBOPOGON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INSECT REPELLENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; CULICIDAE; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; POACEAE;

EID: 77953285960     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1797-y     Document Type: Article

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