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Predatory activity of the fungi Duddingtonia flagrans, Monacrosporium thaumasium, Monacrosporium sinense and Arthrobotrys robusta on Angiostrongylus vasorum first-stage larvae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

F.R. Braga
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
R.O. Carvalho
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
J.M. Araujo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
A.R. Silva
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
J.V. Araújo*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
W.S. Lima
Affiliation:
Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
A.O. Tavela
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
S.R. Ferreira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG36570-000, Brazil
*

Abstract

Angiostrongylus vasorum is a nematode that parasitizes domestic dogs and wild canids. We compared the predatory capacity of isolates from the predatory fungi Duddingtonia flagrans (AC001), Monacrosporium thaumasium (NF34), Monacrosporium sinense (SF53) and Arthrobotrys robusta (I31) on first-stage larvae (L1) of A. vasorum under laboratory conditions. L1A. vasorum were plated on 2% water-agar (WA) Petri dishes marked into 4 mm diameter fields with the four grown isolates and a control without fungus. Plates of treated groups contained each 1000 L1A. vasorum and 1000 conidia of the fungal isolates AC001, NF34, SF53 and I31 on 2% WA. Plates of the control group (without fungus) contained only 1000 L1A. vasorum on 2% WA. Ten random fields (4 mm diameter) were examined per plate of treated and control groups, every 24 h for 7 days. Nematophagous fungi were not observed in the control group during the experiment. There was no variation in the predatory capacity among the tested fungal isolates (P>0.05) during the 7 days of the experiment. There was a significant reduction (P < 0.05) of 80.3%, 74.5%, 74.2% and 71.8% in the means of A. vasorum L1 recovered from treatments with isolates AC001, NF34, SF53 and I31, respectively, compared to the control without fungi. In this study, the four isolates of predatory fungi were efficient in the in vitro capture and destruction of A. vasorum L1, confirming previous work on the efficiency of nematophagous fungi in the control of nematode parasites of dogs and as a possible alternative method of biological control.

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