Five strains of entomogenous nematodes, Steinernema carpocapsæ strains DD, Mexican, SR, and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strains 1S5 and HP88, were tested for their pathogenicity to various developmental stages of five ...

Changes in the ovaries, pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands in Small East African normally cycling female goats chronically infected with T. congolense are described. Marked fibrosis of the ovaries, a decrease in the ...

Five male non-castrated goats were each injected with 2 ml of blood from an infected goat containing about 0.75 million T. congolense/ml. Two goats died 4 weeks after infection; the remainder and five controls were killed ...

Aqueous and oil-based formulations of two entomogenous fungi, Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliæ were tested for their efficacy against the three major species of African ticks; namely, Amblyomma variegatum, ...

Spores of two entomogenous fungi, Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae, were mixed with sterile sand at two different concentrations (1.0 and 0.5 g/liter) and larvae of tsetse flies Glossina morsitans morsitans ...

Since the first report of tick parasitoids by Howard (1907), sevens pecies belonging to the genus Ixodiphagus have been described. Apart from a few parasitoid releases in the USA and Europe in the first third of the century, ...

A water soluble extract of M. discoidea, an African indigenous plant induced high mortalities in nymphs of both Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, and Amblyomma variegatum and in adult R. appendiculatus, but not in adult A. ...

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Haemocoelic injections of live Escherichia coli and oral administration of three tetracycline compounds, namely Reverin, Maxitet and Terramycin to female Glossina morsilans morsitans prior to their first larviposition, ...

The occurrence of Salmonella is a global challenge in the public health and food production sectors. Our study investigated the prevalence, serovar and antimicrobial susceptibility of strains of Salmonella serovars isolated ...