STUDIES ON SILKWORM DISEASES III. EPIZOOTIOLOGY OF A SEPTICEMIC DISEASE OF SILKWORMS CAUSED BY Serratia Marcescens.

Abstract

Serratia marcescens can cause a lethal septicemia even when it enters the silkworm through the oral route if an associative organism identified ES Staphylococcus sp is present in the gut. In a few larvae infected with Serratia marcescens are released amongst healthy larvae that have have been fed with the associative Staphylococcus, mortality due to Serratia is seen to triznifest. nese studics have given certain interesting clues to the occurrence of bacterial epizco tics in the silkworms.