Chemical composition and larvicidal activity of the essential oil of Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng against Anopheles stephensi: A malarial vector mosquito

Parasitology Research

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1275-1278

  Senthilkumar, Annadurai ^a   Venkatesalu, Venugopalan ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LD 50; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PLECTRANTHUS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DISEASE VECTORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSECTICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; OILS, VOLATILE; PLECTRANTHUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952114590     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1996-6     Document Type: Article

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