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Title: Plant extracts, isolated phytochemicals, and plant-derived agents which are lethal to arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases - A review
Authors: Pohlit, Adrian Martin
Rezende, Alex Ribeiro
Lopes Baldin, Edson Luiz
Lopes, Norberto Peporine
Andrade Neto, Valter Ferreira de
Keywords: Benzene
Beta Pinene
Boesenbergia Rotunda Extract
Carvacrol
Catnip Extract
Chromolaena Odorata Extract
Cinnamaldehyde
Cinnamomum Cassia Extract
Citrus Extract
Coumarin
Eucalyptus Extract
Pediculus Humanus
Pediculus Humanus Corporis
Periplaneta Americana
Phlebotominae
Psoroptes Cervinus
Rhipicephalus
Rhodnius
Sarcoptes Scabiei
Siphonaptera (fleas)
Triatoma Infestans
Eugenia Caryophyllata Extract
Triatominae
Xenopsylla Cheopis
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
Lc50
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
Issue Date: 2011
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Planta Medica
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 77, Número 6, Pags. 618-630
Abstract: The recent scientific literature on plant-derived agents with potential or effective use in the control of the arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases is reviewed. Arthropod-borne tropical diseases include: amebiasis, Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), cholera, cryptosporidiosis, dengue (hemorrhagic fever), epidemic typhus (Brill-Zinsser disease), filariasis (elephantiasis), giardia (giardiasis), human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), isosporiasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease (lyme borreliosis), malaria, onchocerciasis, plague, recurrent fever, sarcocystosis, scabies (mites as causal agents), spotted fever, toxoplasmosis, West Nile fever, and yellow fever. Thus, coverage was given to work describing plant-derived extracts, essential oils (EOs), and isolated chemicals with toxic or noxious effects on filth bugs (mechanical vectors), such as common houseflies (Musca domestica Linnaeus), American and German cockroaches (Periplaneta americana Linnaeus, Blatella germanica Linnaeus), and oriental latrine/blowflies (Chrysomya megacephala Fabricius) as well as biting, blood-sucking arthropods such as blackflies (Simulium Latreille spp.), fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis Rothschild), kissing bugs (Rhodnius Stål spp., Triatoma infestans Klug), body and head lice (Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus, P. humanus capitis De Geer), mosquitoes (Aedes Meigen, Anopheles Meigen, Culex L., and Ochlerotatus Lynch Arribálzaga spp.), sandflies (Lutzomyia longipalpis Lutz & Neiva, Phlebotomus Loew spp.), scabies mites (Sarcoptes scabiei De Geer, S. scabiei var hominis, S. scabiei var canis, S. scabiei var suis), and ticks (Ixodes Latreille, Amblyomma Koch, Dermacentor Koch, and Rhipicephalus Koch spp.). Examples of plant extracts, EOs, and isolated chemicals exhibiting noxious or toxic activity comparable or superior to the synthetic control agents of choice (pyrethroids, organophosphorous compounds, etc.) are provided in the text for many arthropod-vectors of tropical diseases. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart New York.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1270949
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