Repellency of Skin-Surface Lipids of Humans to Mosquitoes
- 16 July 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 149 (3681) , 305-306
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.149.3681.305
Abstract
Skin lipids obtained from the washings, in acetone or diethyl ether, of the foreheads or arms of humans are very repellent to female Aedes aegypti when evaluated in a dual-port olfactometer. By means of thin-layer chromatography, the repellent substances can be separated from nonrepellent material also present in skin lipids.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Olfactory Responses of Female Mosquitoes1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1947