Screening of Mediterranean Rosaceae plants for their molluscicidal and piscicidal activities

Phytother Res. 2000 Mar;14(2):126-9. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1573(200003)14:2<126::aid-ptr553>3.0.co;2-v.

Abstract

Extracts of increasing polarity of 13 plants belonging to Mediterranean Rosaceae were tested for possible lethal toxicity against Biomphalaria glabrata Say, a snail intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni Sambon. Due to the search for compounds without toxicity in nontarget organisms, principally fish and humans, the piscicidal toxicity of the active extracts was also evaluated.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biomphalaria / drug effects*
  • Biomphalaria / parasitology
  • Disease Vectors
  • Goldfish*
  • Molluscacides / pharmacology*
  • Molluscacides / toxicity
  • Plant Extracts / pharmacology
  • Plant Extracts / toxicity
  • Poecilia*
  • Rosales* / toxicity
  • Schistosomiasis / prevention & control

Substances

  • Molluscacides
  • Plant Extracts