Larvicidal activity of Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet and Ageratina adenophora (Spreng.) King & H. Rob. plant extracts against arboviral and filarial vector, Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-121

  Samuel, Lallianrawna ^a   Lalrotluanga, ^a   Muthukumaran, Rajendra Bose ^a   Gurusubramanian, Guruswami ^a   Senthilkumar, Nachimuthu ^a  

^a MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arboviral filarial vector; Larvicide; Plant solvent extracts

Indexed keywords

AGERATINA ADENOPHORA EXTRACT; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CHLOROFORM; FLAVONOID; IPOMOEA CAIRICA EXTRACT; METHANOL; PETROLEUM ETHER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGERATINA; AGERATINA ADENOPHORA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; FLOWER; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA CAIRICA; LARVA; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SOXHLET EXTRACTION;

ARBOVIRAL FILARIAL VECTOR; LARVICIDE; LC(50); LT(50); PLANT SOLVENT EXTRACTS;

AGERATINA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CULEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FILARIASIS; FLOWERS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; IPOMOEA; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898648409     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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