American Foulbrood—Old and Always New Challenge [PDF]
Veterinary Sciences, 2023 American foulbrood (AFB) is exclusively an infectious disease of honey bee larvae (Apis mellifera) and their subspecies that is spread easily and rapidly and is often present in apiaries. Due to the resistance and pathogenicity of the bacterial causative
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An Enquiry into the Status of American Foulbrood Therapeutics [PDF]
InsectsManaged colonies of the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, are essential to global food security by ensuring the pollination of a wide array of crops that are crucial for human consumption.
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Prevalence of American foulbrood in asymptomatic apiaries of Kurdistan, Iran [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2018 Aim: Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae is the etiological agent of American foulbrood (AFB), the most virulent bacterial disease of honey bee brood worldwide.
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American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks [PDF]
BMC Ecology, 2020 Background The most severe bacterial disease of honeybees is American foulbrood (AFB). The epidemiology of AFB is driven by the extreme spore resilience, the difficulty of bees to remove these spores, and the considerable incidence of undetected spore ...
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Correction to: American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks between disease and colony development [PDF]
BMC Ecology, 2020 Unfortunately, the original version of the article [1] contained an error. The author has brought to our attention that the article title is truncated in the published version.
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In-Field Detection of American Foulbrood (AFB) by Electric Nose Using Classical Classification Techniques and Sequential Neural Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 American foulbrood is a dangerous bee disease that attacks the sealed brood. It quickly leads to the death of bee colonies. Efficient diagnosis of this disease is essential.
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Phages in Therapy and Prophylaxis of American Foulbrood – Recent Implications From Practical Applications [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 American foulbrood is one of the most serious and yet unsolved problems of beekeeping around the world, because it causes a disease leading to the weakening of the vitality of honey bee populations and huge economic losses both in agriculture and ...
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Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 2016 Paenibacillus larvae is one of the major bacterial pathogens of honey bee broods and the causative agent of American foulbrood disease. The factors responsible for the pathogenesis of American foulbrood disease are still not fully understood, and the ...
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Veterinary Medicine InternationalA cross-sectional study design was conducted across agroecological zones in East Shewa and West Arsi Zones of Oromia, Ethiopia, from September 2020 to November 2021 to identify the types, prevalence, and potential risk factors associated with honeybee ...
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Using whole genome sequencing to study American foulbrood epidemiology in honeybees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 American foulbrood (AFB), caused by Paenibacillus larvae, is a devastating disease in honeybees. In most countries, the disease is controlled through compulsory burning of symptomatic colonies causing major economic losses in apiculture.
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