Mosquitocidal and antiplasmodial activity of Senna occidentalis (Cassiae) and Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae) from Maruthamalai hills against Anopheles stephensi and Plasmodium falciparum

Parasitology Research

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3657-3664

  Murugan, Kadarkarai ^a   Aarthi, Narayanan ^a   Kovendan, Kalimuthu ^a   Panneerselvam, Chellasamy ^a   Chandramohan, Balamurugan ^a   Kumar, Palanisamy Mahesh ^a   Amerasan, Duraisamy ^a   Paulpandi, Manickam ^a   Chandirasekar, Ramachandran ^a   Dinesh, Devakumar ^a   Suresh, Udaiyan ^a   Subramaniam, Jayapal ^a   Higuchi, Akon ^b   Alarfaj, Abdullah A ^c   Nicoletti, Marcello ^d   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^e   Benelli, Giovanni ^f  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Botanical insecticides; Chloroquine resistant parasites; Mosquito borne diseases; Smoke toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; LARVICIDAL AGENT; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PYRETHRIN; SENNA OCCIDENTALIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ANTIPLASMODIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BASIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; IC50; LARVA; LC50; MORTALITY; MOSQUITOCIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPA; SENNA OCCIDENTALIS; SMOKE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; SENNA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; OCIMUM BASILICUM; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PUPA; SENNA PLANT;

EID: 84941314526     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-015-4593-x     Document Type: Article

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