Chemical composition and larvicidal activity ofOcimumspecies essential oils from the south of the Paranaense forest (Argentine) againstAedes aegypti(Diptera: Culicidae) larvae / Pablo F. Martina, Agostina Le Vraux, Darío Ferreyra, Roberto Uliana, Liliana S. Celaya, Felipa Sanchez Gonzalez, Nicolás Kolb Koslobky

ABSTRACT Aedes aegypti plays a predominant role in the transmission of a variety of diseases, such as yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, Zika and Chikungunya disease. The reduction of chemicals available for vector control due to the increase in mosquito resistance to insecticides and their negative impact on the human health and the environment have driven the focus of the problem towards the identification and evaluation of sustainable alternatives to synthetic insecticides. The essential oils from the leaves of Ocimum campechianum , Ocimum ovatum , and Ocimum selloi were analyzed by GC/MS and GC/FID and investigated for its larvicidal activity against A. aegypti larvae. In the chromatographic analyses showed that the main compounds were elemicin (22.8%), methyl eugenol (33.4%), and methyl eugenol (46.5%), respectively. The susceptibility tested on essential oils was performed according to the World Health Organization protocol. The highest larvicidal potential was displayed by O. ovatum , followed by O. campechianum and O. selloi , with LC 50 values of 47.5, 95.5 and 141.2 ppm, respectively. The rapid and efficient larvicidal activity of these three essential oils led us to consider these results as promising for the search of a potentially effective earth-friendly larvicide against the A. aegypti vector.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

The Journal of essential oil research - 34(2022), 5, Seite 416-423

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Martina, Pablo F. [VerfasserIn]
Le Vraux, Agostina [VerfasserIn]
Ferreyra, Darío [VerfasserIn]
Uliana, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Celaya, Liliana S. [VerfasserIn]
Sanchez Gonzalez, Felipa [VerfasserIn]
Kolb Koslobky, Nicolás [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dengue
Ecofriendly products
Elemicin
Mosquito control
Ocimum ovatum

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (8 p)

doi:

10.1080/10412905.2022.2075478

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

KFL011137312