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D'HERELLE1 isolated a small Gram-negative bacillus from dead or dying Schistocerca pollens Thumb. in Yucatan, Mexico. He considered this organism, which he named Coccobacillus acridiorum, to be the etiological agent of a highly virulent disease which was responsible for widespread destruction of locusts in this region. Although he claimed success in locust control by means of the organism, other workers were less successful and the method was finally abandoned. Later, there was some confusion as to the true identity of Coccobacillus acridiorum; but Steinhaus2 states that it is probably related to Aerobacter aerogenes.
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Steinhaus, E. A., “Principles of Insect Pathology”, 282 (McGraw-Hill, 1949).
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STEVENSON, J. An Epizootic among Laboratory Stocks of the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria Forsk. Nature 174, 222 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174222a0
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