OCCURRENCE IN THE SOIL AND DISPERSAL OF LECANICILLIUM LECANII, A FUNGAL PATHOGEN OF THE GREEN COFFEE SCALE (COCCUS VIRIDIS) AND COFFEE RUST (HEMILEIA VASTATRIX)

OCCURRENCE IN THE SOIL AND DISPERSAL OF Lecanicillium lecanii, A FUNGAL PATHOGEN OF THE GREEN COFFEE SCALE (Coccus viridis) AND COFFEE RUST (Hemileia vastatrix)

The fungus Lecanicillium lecanii attacks the green scale (Coccus viridis), a pest of coffee, and is also a hyperparasite of coffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix).Knowledge of the epizootiology of this fungus is potentially important for conservation biological control in coffee agroecosystems.The presence of viable propagules of L.lecanii in the soil, a

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Hepatitis A virus infections and outbreaks in asylum seekers arriving to Germany, September 2015 to March 2016

From September 2015 to March 2016, hepatitis A notifications in Germany increased by 45% to 699 cases compared to 482 cases in the same period of the previous year.Children aged five to nine years were predominantly affected (22% of all cases in this period).We hypothesized that this increase could be explained by the marked influx of asylum seeker

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