Plant extracts, isolated phytochemicals, and plant-derived agents which are lethal to arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases - A review

Planta Medica

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 618-630

  Pohlit, Adrian Martin ^a,b   Rezende, Alex Ribeiro ^b   Lopes Baldin, Edson Luiz ^c   Lopes, Norberto Peporine ^b   De Andrade Neto, Valter Ferreira ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

acaricide; biotechnology; botanicals; essential oils; insecticidal and larvicidal plants; natural products; phytochemicals; plant extracts

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BETA PINENE; BOESENBERGIA ROTUNDA EXTRACT; CARVACROL; CATNIP EXTRACT; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA EXTRACT; CINNAMALDEHYDE; CINNAMOMUM CASSIA EXTRACT; CITRUS EXTRACT; COUMARIN; EUCALYPTUS EXTRACT; EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA EXTRACT; EUGENOL; FRIEDELIN; GERANIOL; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA EXTRACT; GUAVA EXTRACT; ILLICIUM VERUM EXTRACT; LIMONENE; MENTHONE; MYRCENE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRETHROID; TERPINENE; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZANTHOXYLUM XANTHOXYLOIDES EXTRACT;

AFRICA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMEBIASIS; BOESENBERGIA ROTUNDA; CALLIPHORIDAE; CATNIP; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHOLERA; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; CITRUS FRUIT; CLOVE; COCKROACH; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DENGUE; EUROPE; FILARIASIS; FLEA; GIARDIA; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; HOUSE FLY; ILLICIUM VERUM; ISOSPORIASIS; LC 50; LD 50; LEISHMANIASIS; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MITE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE VECTOR; PEDICULUS; PLAGUE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PSYCHODIDAE; RECURRENT FEVER; REVIEW; RHODNIUS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SCABIES; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM; TICK; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; TYPHUS; WEST NILE FEVER; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; XENOPSYLLA; YELLOW FEVER; ZANTHOXYLUM XANTHOXYLOIDES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; ARTHROPODA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; CANIS; CHRYSOMYA MEGACEPHALA; DERMACENTOR; GIARDIA; IXODES; IXODIDA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MUSCA DOMESTICA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CORPORIS; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PSOROPTES CERVINUS; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHODNIUS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMINAE; XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS;

EID: 84930486746     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1270949     Document Type: Review

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