Entomopathogenic fungus as a biological control for an important vector of livestock disease: The culicoides biting midge

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ansari, Minshad Ali ^a   Pope, Edward C ^a   Carpenter, Simon ^b   Scholte, Ernst Jan ^c   Butt, Tariq M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c National Centre for Monitoring of Vectors   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; DISEASE MODEL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GREENHOUSE; ISARIA FUMOSOROSEA; LECANICILLIUM LONGISPORUM; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MANURE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; FUNGUS SPORE; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; FUNGI; ISARIA; LECANICILLIUM LONGISPORUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

PESTICIDE;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; LIVESTOCK; METARHIZIUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PESTICIDES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 79251566732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016108     Document Type: Article

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