%0 Journal Article %T Survey of nematophagous fungi in South Africa : research communication %A D.T. Durand %A H.M. Boshoff %A L.M. Michael %A R.C. Krecek %J Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research %D 2010 %I AOSIS OpenJournals %R 10.4102/ojvr.v72i2.217 %X Three hundred and eighty-four samples of leaf litter, soil, faeces from domestic and game animals, compost and aqueous cultures of infective nematode larvae contaminated with unidentified fungi were plated out on water agar, baited with pure infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus, incubated and examined for the presence of nematophagous fungi. Duddingtonia flagrans was isolated from five samples, and 73 samples were positive for other nematophagous fungi. %U http://www.ojvr.org/index.php/ojvr/article/view/217