| Potential of some Nigerian plants as mosquito larvicides (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Crude ethanolic extracts of thirteen plants from Nigeria were screened for larvicidal activity against fourth instar Aedes aegypti mosquito. Only seven of these were active (LC50 ≤ 6.25ppm). Activity of the solvent partitioned-extracts derived from the more active plants was in the order: EtOAc < BuOH | |||||||||||||||
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