Laboratory evaluation of Indian medicinal plants as repellents against malaria, dengue, and filariasis vector mosquitoes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 601-612

  Govindarajan, Marimuthu ^a   Sivakumar, Rajamohan ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asparagus racemosus; Erythrina indica; Mosquitoes; Repellent activity

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS EXTRACT; BENZENE; CHLOROFORM; ERYTHRINA INDICA EXTRACT; HEXANE; INSECT REPELLENT; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSECT REPELLENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS; BATH; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DENGUE; ERYTHRINA; ERYTHRINA INDICA; FEEDING; FILARIASIS; LABORATORY; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMALS; ASPARAGUS PLANT; CHEMISTRY; CULICIDAE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LABORATORIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASPARAGUS PLANT; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ERYTHRINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILARIASIS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECT VECTORS; LABORATORIES; MALARIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84922105453     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-4222-0     Document Type: Article

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