Toxicity of a plant based mosquito repellent/killer

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 184-191

  Singh, Bhoopendra ^a   Singh, Prakash Raj ^b   Mohanty, Manoj Kumar ^c  

^a RAJENDRA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Department of Science   (India)

^c Research Centre Ariyur   (India)

Author keywords

Herbal; Mosquito out; Mosquito repellent; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CHRONIC TOXICITY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; SALVIA; TOXICOLOGY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876514546     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-012-0031-4     Document Type: Article

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