Screening of twenty five plant extracts for larvicidal activity against Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae)
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Screening of twenty five plant extracts for larvicidal activity against Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) Samuel Tennyson, K John Ravindran, S Arivoli Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College, 600 059, Tamilnadu, India National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR), Field Unit Chennai, National Institute of Epidemiology Campus, Chennai 600 077, Tamilnadu, India P.G. & Research Department of Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai 600 034, Tamilnadu, India Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine (2012)S1130-S1134
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