Pathogenicity of Plistophora collessi microsporidians for the larvae of blood-sucking mosquitoes

Deshevykh, N.D.

Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 47(4): 108-109

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326
PMID: 98693
Document Number: 129318
The pathogenic effect of P. collessi microsporidia on larvae of the blood-sucking mosquitoes Culex modestus and C. pipiens was studied. This agent causes a significant death rate of larvae with 7-54% of larvae developing to the imago stage; while in controls 79-97% of larvae reached this stage.

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