Food to some, poison to others ‐ honeybee royal jelly and its growth inhibiting effect on European Foulbrood bacteria
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DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.397
Abstract: Honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera) serve as attractive hosts for a variety of pathogens providing optimal temperatures, humidity, and an abundance of food. Thus, honeybees have to deal with pathogens throughout their lives and, even as… read more here.
Keywords: european foulbrood; effect; royal jelly; growth ... See more keywords
European Foulbrood in stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in Brazil: Old disease, renewed threat
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2020.107357
Abstract: Abstract Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are a group of bees with vestigial stings showing a high level of social organization. They are important pollinators in tropical and subtropical regions, and, in the last decades, stingless… read more here.
Keywords: apidae meliponini; stingless bees; european foulbrood; disease ... See more keywords
Validation of Diagnostic Methods for European Foulbrood on Commercial Honey Bee Colonies in the United States
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DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/ieab075
Abstract: Abstract One of the most serious bacterial pathogens of Western honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus [Hymenoptera: Apidae]) is Melissococcus plutonius, the cause of the disease European foulbrood. Because European foulbrood is highly variable, with diverse… read more here.
Keywords: flow device; european foulbrood; foulbrood; united states ... See more keywords
Paenibacillus melissococcoides sp. nov., isolated from a honey bee colony affected by European foulbrood disease.
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DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005829
Abstract: A novel, facultatively anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive, motile, endospore-forming bacterium of the genus Paenibacillus , designated strain 2.1T, was isolated from a colony of Apis mellifera affected by European foulbrood disease in Switzerland. The rod-shaped cells of… read more here.
Keywords: foulbrood disease; melissococcoides nov; paenibacillus; paenibacillus melissococcoides ... See more keywords
Bacterial community associated with worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) affected by European foulbrood
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3816
Abstract: Background Melissococcus plutonius is an entomopathogenic bacterium that causes European foulbrood (EFB), a honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) disease that necessitates quarantine in some countries. In Czechia, positive evidence of EFB was absent for almost 40… read more here.
Keywords: plutonius; worker; european foulbrood; apis mellifera ... See more keywords