The distribution of Paenibacillus larvae spores in adult bees and honey and larval mortality, following the addition of American foulbrood diseased brood or spore-contaminated honey in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-86

  Lindström, Anders ^a   Korpela, Seppo ^b   Fries, Ingemar ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

American foulbrood; Apis; Contaminated honey; Paenibacillus larvae; Spore transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SPORE; BEE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HONEY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LONGEVITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BACILLACEAE; BEES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS; HONEY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LONGEVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE;

EID: 49849100416     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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