Virulence of bacillus cereus as natural facultative pathogen of anopheles subpictus grassi (diptera: Culicidae) larvae in submerged rice-fields and shallow ponds

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 6983-6987

  Chatterjee, Soumendranath ^a   Ghosh, Tuhin Subhra ^a   Das, Surajit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

^b Kabi Nazrul College   (India)

Author keywords

Anopheles subpictus larva; Bacillus cereus; Biochemical characterization; Fatty acid methyl ester analysis; Pathogen; Scanning electron micrograph

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CATALASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FATTY ACID ESTER; GATIFLOXACIN; GELATINASE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDOLE; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NITRATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UREASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES SUBPICTUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POND;

ANOPHELES SUBPICTUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 78049463093     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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