Larvicidal activity of selected plant hydrodistillate extracts against the house mosquito, Culex pipiens, a West Nile virus vector

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 943-948

  Cetin, Huseyin ^a   Yanikoglu, Atila ^a   Cilek, James E ^b  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORNEOL; CARYOPHYLLENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; LARVICIDAL AGENT; PINENE;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CHRYSANTHEMUM CORONARIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; HYDRODISTILLATION; HYPERICUM SCABRUM; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PISTACIA TEREBINTHUS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DISEASE VECTORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSANTHEMUM CORONARIUM; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HYPERICUM SCABRUM; PISTACIA TEREBINTHUS; VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79956227309     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2136-z     Document Type: Article

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