Identification of mosquito larvicidal bacterial strains isolated from north Sinai in Egypt

AMB Express

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Rashad, Ferial M ^a   Saleh, Waleed D ^a   Nasr, M ^b   Fathy, Hayam M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR RADIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bacillus sphaericus; Conventional media; Culex pipiens; Larvicidal activity; PCR; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOCIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIN A; BIN B; BIOINFORMATICS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; GENE SEQUENCE; LARVAL STAGE; MOSQUITO; MTX 1; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS;

EID: 84859502794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21910855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-0855-2-9     Document Type: Article

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