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Entomopathogens (i.e., viruses, bacteria, rickettsia, fungi, protozoans, and nematodes) are commonly isolated from their insect hosts. Their natural occurrence in insect populations contributes to the regulation of injurious pests of humans and their crops, households and domestic animals. Entomopathogens have potential for microbial control programs (Steinhaus, 1956), and many of them have been exploited for pest control through inoculative, inundative and augmentative releases (Lacey and Goettel, 1995). Spectacular successes have been reported for some entomopathogens as classical biological control agents (Zelazny et al., 1992; Bedding, 1993; Hajek et al., 1996), but their inundative use for suppression of pest insects is much more common.
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Kaya, H.K., Lacey, L.A. (2000). Introduction to Microbial Control. In: Lacey, L.A., Kaya, H.K. (eds) Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1547-8_1
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