Can fungal biopesticides control malaria?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 377-383

  Thomas, Matthew B ^a   Read, Andrew F ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRASSHOPPER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LOCUST; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEAUVERIA; FEMALE; FUNGI; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; METARHIZIUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34247201614     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1638     Document Type: Article

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