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THE object of this communication is to record the experimental infection of laboratory-hatched larvæ of the malaria-carrying Anopheles gambiæ Giles with a fungus of the genus Cælomomyces Keilin after transporting soil and fungal resting sporangia from the infected locality at Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia to Johannesburg (Transvaal), a distance of several hundred miles. The infection of the larvæ was obtained in a concrete trough after the resting sporangia had lain dormant for more than eight months. This note is supplementary to a paper by me published recently1, and the species of the fungus is that referred to as type a in the paper.
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MUSPRATT, J. Experimental Infection of the Larvæ of Anopheles gambiae (Dipt., Culicidæ) with a Coelomomyces Fungus. Nature 158, 202 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158202c0
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