| clustering, persistence and control of a pollinator brood disease: epidemiology of american foulbrood. | american foulbrood (afb), caused by paenibacillus larvae, is the most damaging bacterial brood disease of the honeybee (apis mellifera), causing colony deaths on all continents where honeybees are managed. afb has been a persistent problem in the uk for over 70 years, with a fluctuating number of cases discovered annually. once diseased colonies are identified, they are destroyed to reduce pathogen spread. we investigated the pattern of afb cases recorded over the period 1994 to 2012 using spati ... | 2014 | 24119163 |
| molecular epidemiology and population structure of the honey bee brood pathogen melissococcus plutonius. | melissococcus plutonius is the causative agent of european foulbrood (efb), which is a serious brood disease of the european honey bee (apis mellifera). efb remains a threat because of a poor understanding of disease epidemiology. we used a recently published multi-locus sequence typing method to characterise 206 m. plutonius isolates recovered from outbreaks in england and wales over the course of 2 years. we detected 15 different sequence types (sts), which were resolved by eburst and phylogen ... | 2014 | 24599072 |
| the occurrence of melissococcus plutonius in healthy colonies of apis mellifera and the efficacy of european foulbrood control measures. | european foulbrood (efb) persists in england and wales despite current treatment methods, all of which include feeding honey bee colonies with the antibiotic oxytetracycline (otc). a large-scale field experiment was conducted to monitor a husbandry-based method, using comb replacement (known as shook swarm), as a drug free efb control option. the understanding of efb epidemiology is limited, with little information on the presence of melissococcus plutonius in disease free colonies. additional s ... | 2010 | 20600088 |