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Table 2 Pair-wise Kaplan-Meier survival curve and LT50 comparison for adult Anopheles gambiae s.s. exposed to four different doses of sunflower oil-formulated Metarhizium anisopliae.

From: Infection of malaria (Anopheles gambiae s.s.) and filariasis (Culex quinquefasciatus) vectors with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae

Dose1

Survival curves2

LT50 ± SE3

LT50-grouping2

% Infected

Control

a

9.86 ± 1.16

a

N/a

105

ab

9.37 ± 1.26

a

4.43 ± 4.4

106

bc

6.85 ± 0.44

b

32.63 ± 5.4

107

c

6.65 ± 0.43

b

59.74 ± 5.6

108

d

5.85 ± 0.26

b

83.70 ± 8.3

  1. 1 conidia per ml of 10% oil-formulation ; 2 treatments without letters in common are significantly different at P < 0.05; 3 standard error. N/a: not applicable.
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Malaria Journal

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