Free‐living nematgbes as disease factors of man and his crops

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Abstract
This paper gives a literature survey of the role of free‐living nematodes as disseminators of human and plant diseases. It is shown that a few experimentally chosen species of free‐living nematodes transmit in their intestine, and through defecation .spread saprophitic plant pathogenic and human enteric bacteria and also spores of plant pathogenic fungi, mycoplasma, phages of bacteria and algae. Nematodes protect them from chlorination.