Identification of Microsporidia infections in nature: light microscopy or PCR?
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1 Department of Entomology Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 2 Laboratory for Microbiological Control, All Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg Pushkin, Russia 3 Laboratory of Cytology of Unicellular Organisms, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Laboratory of Agrocoenology, All Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg Pushkin, Russia
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