Is contact colony treatment with antibiotics an effective control for European foulbrood?

Bee World

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 130-138

  Thompson, Helen M ^a   Brown, Michael A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0035624777     PISSN: 0005772X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2001.11099515     Document Type: Article

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