Felix Akpabey

MPhil University of Ghana

Entomology PhD

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8525
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail g07A2911@campus.ru.ac.za

Thesis title

Socio-economic impact and control of water hyacinth in Ghana. Supervisor: Professor Martin Hill

Recent publications

Yankson K. & Akpabey, F.J. (2001). A preliminary survey of the macro-invertebrate fauna at Iture Rocky Beach, Cape Coast, Ghana. Journal of Natural Sciences 1, No. 2, 11-22.

Wilson, M.D., Akpabey, F.J., Osei-Atweneboana, M.Y., Boakye D.A., Ocran M., Kurtak D.C., Cheke R. A. Mensah, G.E., Birkhold D. and Cibulsky, R. (2005). Field and laboratory studies on water conditions affecting the potency of VectoBac® (Bacillus thuringiensis serotype H-14) against larvae of the blackfly, Simulium damnosum. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Vol.19 No. 4, 404-412.

Ocran, M.H. and Akpabey, F. (2006). The use of two Biological formulations of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus sphaericus in the control of mosquito vectors of malaria in drains and rice fields. Ghana Journal of Science 46, 37-45.

Benbow M. E, Williamson H, Kimbirauskas R, McIntosh M. D, Kolar R, Quaye C, Akpabey F, Boakye D, Small P, and Merritt RW (2008). Aquatic invertebrates as unlikely vectors of buruli ulcer disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(8):1247.