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Keywords: basic model and some refinements, biological properties of the basic model, refinements of the basic model, natural and pathogen induced mortality rates for insect hosts of some viral, bacterial, protozoan and fungal infections, host-pathogen dynamics can be complex, ways in which realistic refinements affect threshold and regulatory criteria, optimal pathogenicity for self-maintaining regulation, rate of continuous release of a pathogen to eradicate an insect pest