Michael Eddleston, and
Surjit Singh, and
Nick Buckley
Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Description
Entries
D007306
Insecticides
Pesticides designed to control insects that are harmful to man. The insects may be directly harmful, as those acting as disease vectors, or indirectly harmful, as destroyers of crops, food products, or textile fabrics.
Insecticide
D009946
Organothiophosphorus Compounds
Compounds containing carbon-phosphorus bonds in which the phosphorus component is also bonded to one or more sulfur atoms. Many of these compounds function as CHOLINERGIC AGENTS and as INSECTICIDES.