Larvicidal activity of essential extract of rosmarinus officinalis against culex quinquefasciatus

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-48

  Yu, Jing ^a   Liu, Xiang Yi ^b   Yang, Bin ^b   Wang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Fu Qiang ^a   Feng, Zi Liang ^a   Wang, Chen Zhu ^a   Fan, Quan Shui ^a  

^a Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Chengdu Military Command   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culex quinquefasciatus; essential oil; Larvicidal activity; Rosmarinus officinalis

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULEX; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LD 50; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOUSE; ROSMARINUS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; OILS, VOLATILE; ROSMARINUS;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DRYOBALANOPS; INVERTEBRATA; MUS; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 84875588788     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/12-6265R.1     Document Type: Article

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