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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of comprehensively evaluating the condition of contamination caused by a pathogenic microorganism of a test specimen without using a test animal such as a mouse and without carrying out a complex process. SOLUTION: The method for evaluating the degree of the contamination caused by the pathogenic microorganism of the test specimen includes evaluating whether toxicity is exhibited in a larva or not when a sample containing the microorganism separated from the test specimen and/or a product produced by the microorganism is administered to the larva of a holometaboly-type insect. Especially, the test specimen is preferably an environmental sample in the method. More preferably, the environmental sample is soil, underground water, river water, lake water, seawater or air-borne fungi in the method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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