| toxicity of a mosquitocidal metabolite of pseudomonas fluorescens on larvae & pupae of the house fly, musca domestica. | biological control through the use of parasitoids and pathogens is one of the alternatives to the use of chemical pesticides for control of insects of public health importance. at the vector control research centre, a liquid formulation developed using the metabolite of a pseudomonas fluorescens strain was found to be lethal to larvae as well as pupae of vector mosquitoes. the lethal fraction of the metabolite is a protein with a molecular mass of 44 kda and toxicity studies showed that it is sa ... | 2005 | 15756045 |
| horizontal transfer of plasmid-mediated cephalosporin resistance genes in the intestine of houseflies (musca domestica). | houseflies are a mechanical vector for various types of bacteria, including antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (arb). if the intestine of houseflies is a suitable site for the transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes (args), houseflies could also serve as a biological vector for arb. to clarify whether cephalosporin resistance genes are transferred efficiently in the housefly intestine, we compared with conjugation experiments in vivo (in the intestine) and in vitro by using escherichia coli wit ... | 2016 | 26683492 |