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BACKGROUND
Botanical and microbial insecticides have been increasingly used for the control of mosquito given their efficacy and documented nontoxic effects on non-target organisms. The discovery of new insecticides is imperative because of the development of resistance by the mosquitoes to the
After removing lipophilic material, the ground root bark of Quassia africana Baill. (Simaroubaceae) was extracted with ethanol 95 %. Partitioning between chloroform, ethyl acetate and water yielded three crude extracts. Pronounced activities were shown by the chloroform and ethyl acetate crude
Two antimalarial quassinoids, gutolactone [1] and simalikalactone D [2], have been characterized by bioactivity-directed fractionation from the bark of Simaba guianensis collected near Manaus, Brazil. Compound 2 was previously isolated from Simaba multiflora and Quassia africana and shown to be an