American foulbrood in honey bees

Bee World

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 168-180

  Chantawannakul, Panuwan ^a   Dancer, Brian N ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE;

EID: 0035541019     PISSN: 0005772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2001.11099524     Document Type: Article

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