1.
Tanzan. j. of health research
; 11(1): 23-28, 2009.
Article
in English
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1272562
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Tanzan. j. of health research
; 10(1): 47-50, 2008.
Article
in English
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1272539
ABSTRACT
Long chain aliphatic methyl ketone series of C7-C15 were tested for repellency activity against the malaria transmitting mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s. All methyl ketones produced a dose dependent (P0.001) repellency response with 2-tridecanone giving comparable protection efficacy to DEET at 10 and 1concentrations. Aliphatic methyl ketones of C7-C10 had lower activity than those of C11-C15. However; within this range compounds with odd carbon atoms (2-undecanone; 2-tridecanone and 2-pentadecanone) were more effective than compounds with even carbon atoms (2-decanone and 2- dodecanone). Comparable repellency activity of 2-tridecanone to DEET show that; it may save as Anopheles gambiae s.s. mosquito repellent