Isolation of Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) from the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma infestans Klug (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in an endemic area in Argentina

Mycopathologia

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 369-372

  Marti, Gerardo A ^a   Lastra, Claudia C López ^b   Pelizza, Sebastian A ^b   García, Juan J ^b  

^a Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

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

Author keywords

Entomopathogenic fungi; Paecilomyces lilacinus; Triatoma infestans; Triatominae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PAECILOMYCES; TRIATOMA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE VECTORS; PAECILOMYCES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; TRIATOMA;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYPOCREALES; INSECTA; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; REDUVIIDAE; SCHINOPSIS BALANSAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 33751418124     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-006-0072-3     Document Type: Article

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