Negative correlation between individual-insect-level virulence and colony-level virulence of Paenibacillus larvae, the etiological agent of american foulbrood of honeybees

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3344-3347

  Rauch, Sandra ^a   Ashiralieva, Ainura ^a   Hedtke, Kati ^a   Genersch, Elke ^a  

^a Institute for Bee Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN FOULBROOD; ETIOLOGICAL AGENT; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE;

BACTERIUM; ETIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; MITIGATION; VIRULENCE;

AMERICAN FOULBROOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; HYGIENE; INSECT DISEASE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PAENIBACILLUS;

ANIMALS; BEES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; LARVA; VIRULENCE;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE;

EID: 66249098546     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02839-08     Document Type: Article

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