Claim · model-written summary
Rosemary oil mortality decreased to 40% at 5% oil concentration.
- Taxon
- R. microplus
Rhipicephalus micropluse1 - Treatment
- oil concentration of 5%e0
- Outcome
- larval mortalitye0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 40%e0
- Comparator
- higher concentrationse0
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Verbatim
e0“Rosemary essential oil produced >85% larval mortality at the higher concentrations (10 and 20%), but the effect decreased noticeably to 40% at an oil concentration of 5%”
e1“on 10-d-old R. microplus tick larvae.”
Title
M. Martinez-Velazquez; R. Rosario-Cruz; G. Castillo-Herrera; et al. Journal of Medical Entomology 2011. doi:10.1603/me10140
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Mexican oregano oil caused 90-100% tick larval mortality at all tested concentrations.
- Intervention effect Garlic oil caused 90-100% tick larval mortality at all tested concentrations.
- Intervention effect Rosemary oil caused greater than 85% larval mortality at 10 and 20% concentrations.
- Intervention effect Rosemary oil caused no mortality at 2.5 and 1.25% concentrations.
- Observation Mexican oregano oil contained thymol at 24.59%.
- Observation Mexican oregano oil contained carvacrol at 24.54%.
- Observation Mexican oregano oil contained p-cymene at 13.6%.
- Observation Mexican oregano oil contained y-terpinene at 7.43%.
- Observation Rosemary oil contained a-pinene at 31.07%.
- Observation Rosemary oil contained verbenone at 15.26%.
- Observation Rosemary oil contained 1,8-cineol at 14.2%.
- Observation Garlic oil contained diallyl trisulfide at 33.57%.
- Observation Garlic oil contained diallyl disulfide at 30.93%.
- Observation Garlic oil contained methyl allyl trisulfide at 11.28%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend further investigation of Mexican oregano oil for tick control.
- Recommendation The authors recommend further investigation of garlic oil for tick control.