Characterization of selected Gram-negative non-fermenting bacteria isolated from honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica)

Apidologie

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 312-325

  Loncaric, Igor ^a,b   Ruppitsch, Werner ^b   Licek, Elisabeth ^a   Moosbeckhofer, Rudolf ^b   Busse, Hans Jürgen ^a   Rosengarten, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

Author keywords

16s rDNA gene; Bacterial diversit; Honey; Honey bees; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROKINESIS; FERMENTATION; HONEY; HONEYBEE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACINETOBACTER; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA CARNICA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

EID: 80054691542     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-011-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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