RESEARCH NOTE
A New Strain of Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar israelensis Very Active against Blackfly Larvae
Vol. 94(5): 683-685
Leon Rabinovitch/+, Clara de Fátima G Cavados, Jeane Q Chaves, Carlos José PCA Coutinho*, Viviane Zahner**, Katia Regina A Silva***, Lucy Seldin***
Laboratório de Fisiologia Bacteriana, Departamento de Bacteriologia **Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil *Superintendência de Controle de Endemias, Secretaria de Estado de Saúde de São Paulo, SP, Brasil ***Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Key words: Bacillus thuringiensis - Aedes aegypti - Aedes albopictus - Anopheles - blackfly - mosquito control
Acknowledgments: to Professor M-M Lecadet and to the Center of Entomopathogenic Bacteria of the Pasteur Institute-Paris, for providing the H-serotyping. To Dr Cristiano CA Marques, Superintendência de Controle de Endemias, São Paulo, for the bioassays in Aedes albopictus larvae and to Rosângela da Costa for secretarial assistance.
Partial supported by Conselho Nacional de Desen-volvimento Científico e Tecnológico.
+Corresponding author. Fax: ???? E-mail: leon@ioc.fiocruz.br
Received 25 January 1999
Accepted 10 June 1999
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