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Atypical Melissococcus plutonius strains: their characteristics, virulence, epidemiology, and mysteries. [PDF]

J Vet Med Sci, 2023
Melissococcus plutonius is a Gram-positive lanceolate coccus that is the causative agent of European foulbrood, an important bacterial disease of honey bee brood.
Takamatsu D.
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Differential resistance across paternal genotypes of honey bee brood to the pathogenic bacterium Melissococcus plutonius [PDF]

Journal of Applied Entomology, 2022
Melissococcus plutonius is a pathogenic bacterium affecting immature stages of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) and leads to European foulbrood (EFB) disease.
Ameline, Camille, Beaurepaire, Alexis, Dainat, Benjamin, de La Harpe, Marylaure, Dietemann, Vincent, Ory, Florine   +5 more
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Comparative Genomics and Description of Putative Virulence Factors of Melissococcus plutonius, the Causative Agent of European Foulbrood Disease in Honey Bees. [PDF]

Genes (Basel), 2018
In Europe, approximately 84% of cultivated crop species depend on insect pollinators, mainly bees. Apis mellifera (the Western honey bee) is the most important commercial pollinator worldwide.
Djukic M, Erler S, Leimbach A, Grossar D, Charrière JD, Gauthier L, Hartken D, Dietrich S, Nacke H, Daniel R, Poehlein A.   +10 more
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Diversity of Melissococcus plutonius from honeybee larvae in Japan and experimental reproduction of European foulbrood with cultured atypical isolates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
European foulbrood (EFB) is an important infectious disease of honeybee larvae, but its pathogenic mechanisms are still poorly understood. The causative agent, Melissococcus plutonius, is a fastidious organism, and microaerophilic to anaerobic conditions
Rie Arai, Kiyoshi Tominaga, Meihua Wu, Masatoshi Okura, Kazutomo Ito, Naomi Okamura, Hidetaka Onishi, Makoto Osaki, Yuya Sugimura, Mikio Yoshiyama, Daisuke Takamatsu   +10 more
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Quantitative tyramine analysis method for Apis mellifera larvae infected with Melissococcus plutonius, the causative agent of European foulbrood. [PDF]

J Vet Med Sci
Tyramine, a trace monoamine produced from tyrosine by decarboxylation and found naturally in foods, plants, and animals, is a suspected virulence factor of Melissococcus plutonius that causes European foulbrood in honey bee brood.
Takamatsu D, Uegaki R, Okamoto M, Nakamura K, Harada M.   +4 more
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Complete Genome Sequences of Two Melissococcus plutonius Strains with Different Virulence Profiles, Obtained by PacBio Sequencing. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc, 2019
Melissococcus plutonius attacks honeybee larvae, causing European foulbrood. Based on their virulence toward larvae, M. plutonius isolates were classified into three types, highly virulent, moderately virulent, and avirulent.
Okumura K, Takamatsu D, Okura M.
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Simultaneous PCR detection of Paenibacillus larvae targeting insertion sequence IS256 and Melissococcus plutonius targeting pMP1 plasmid from hive specimens. [PDF]

Folia Microbiol (Praha)
Paenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius represent the most threatening bacterial diseases of honeybee ( Apis mellifera )—American and European foulbrood, respectively.
Vlkova K, Erban T, Kamler M, Titera D, Bitar I, Hrabak J.   +5 more
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A novel multiplex PCR assay to detect and distinguish between different types of Paenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius, and a survey of foulbrood pathogen contamination in Japanese honey. [PDF]

J Vet Med Sci, 2022
Paenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius are the causative agents of American and European foulbroods of honey bees, respectively. Since their virulence and resistance to disinfectants differ depending on the genotypes/phenotypes of the strains ...
Okamoto M, Furuya H, Sugimoto I, Kusumoto M, Takamatsu D.   +4 more
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Influence of Honey bee Nutritive Jelly Type and Dilution on its Bactericidal Effect on Melissococcus plutonius, the Etiological Agent of European Foulbrood. [PDF]

Microb Ecol, 2023
To defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms, honey bees resort to social immunity mechanisms, such as the secretion of antibiotic compounds in the jelly they feed to their larvae.
de La Harpe M, Gütlin A, Chiang C, Dietemann V, Dainat B.   +4 more
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In the battle of the disease: a transcriptomic analysis of European foulbrood-diseased larvae of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2022
Background European foulbrood is a significant bacterial brood disease of Apis sp. and can cause severe and devastating damages in beekeeping operations.
Oleg Lewkowski, Anja Poehlein, Rolf Daniel, Silvio Erler   +3 more
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