Isolation of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) from the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Argentina

Mycopathologia

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 389-391

  Marti, G A ^a   Scorsetti, A C ^a   Siri, A ^a   Lopez Lastra C C ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Beauveria bassiana; Entomopathogenic fungi; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ASCOMYCETES; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; TRIATOMA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; ASCOMYCOTA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; INSECT VECTORS; NYMPH; TRIATOMA; VIRULENCE;

BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYPHOMYCETES; INSECTA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 19944420475     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-005-9499-1     Document Type: Review

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