Insects represent a link between food animal farms and
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Ludek Zurek and Anuradha Ghosh 10 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology; College of Veterinary Medicine 11 Department of Entomology; College of Agriculture 12 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Corresponding author 19 Department of Entomology 20 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology 21 Waters Hall 034 22 Kansas State University 23 Manhattan, KS 66506 24 Phone: 785 532 4731 25 Fax: 785 532 6232 26 27 28 AEM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 4 April 2014 Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.00600-14 Copyright © 2014, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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