Screening for Indian isolates of egg-parasitic fungi for use in biological control of fascioliasis and amphistomiasis in ruminant livestock

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-277

  De, S ^a   Sanyal, P K ^a   Sarkar, A K ^a   Patel, N K ^a   Pal, S ^a   Mandal, S C ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BOVIDS; CULTURE MEDIUM; EGG PARASITOID; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; VERTICILLIUM; VERTICILLIUM CHLAMYDOSPORIUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CULTURE MEDIA; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; OVUM; PAECILOMYCES; PARAMPHISTOMATIDAE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RUMINANTS; TEMPERATURE; VERTICILLIUM;

EXPLANATUM; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; POCHONIA CHLAMYDOSPORIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 55949097921     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X08982602     Document Type: Article

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