Lack of acute pathogenicity and toxicity in mice of an isolate of Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae from spittlebugs

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 278-287

  Toriello, C ^a   Perez Torres A ^b   Burciaga Diaz A ^c   Navarro Barranco, H ^a   Perez Mejia A ^a   Lorenzana Jimenez M ^b   Mier, T ^c  

^a Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aeneolamia sp.; Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae; Mice; Pathogenicity; Safety; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; PATHOGENICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOGENICITY; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MEXICO; MOUSE; MYCOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; TOXICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HYPOCREALES; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MYCOSES; SPORES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AENEOLAMIA; ANIMALIA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 33746905072     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.07.016     Document Type: Article

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