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Pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, rickettsia, fungi, protozoans, and nematodes, are commonly isolated from insect and other invertebrate hosts. Their natural occurrence in invertebrate populations contributes to the regulation of injurious pests of humans and their crops, households and domestic animals. These entomopathogens have potential for biological (i.e., microbial) control programs (Steinhaus, 1956), and many of them have been exploited for insect pest control through inoculative, inundative and augmentative releases (Lacey et al., 2001).
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Kaya, H.K., Lacey, L.A. (2007). Introduction to microbial control. In: Lacey, L.A., Kaya, H.K. (eds) Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5933-9_1
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