Toxicity of essential oil from Indian borage on the larvae of the African malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kweka, Eliningaya J ^a   Senthilkumar, Annadurai ^b   Venkatesalu, Venugopalan ^b  

^a TROPICAL PESTICIDES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; LARVICIDAL AGENT;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BORAGO; LARVA; LC 50; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BORAGO; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BORAGINACEAE; PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS;

EID: 84870291374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-277     Document Type: Article

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