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Molluscicidal activity against Biomphalaria glabrata of Brazilian Cerrado medicinal plants
J C B Bezerra1, I A Silva, H D Ferreira
1Setor de Parasitologia-Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, GO, Goiânia, Brazil.
Fitoterapia
|August 8, 2002
Abstract:
Alcoholic extracts of six Brazilian Cerrado medicinal plants were evaluated for their molluscicidal activity against Biomphalaria glabrata, intermediate host of schistosomiasis. Stryphnodendron polyphyllum bark extract, rich in condensed tannins, was the most promising as molluscicide.