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Insecticides

"Insecticides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Insecticides" by people in this website by year, and whether "Insecticides" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2004 and 2008
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