American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks

The most severe bacterial disease of honeybees is American foulbrood (AFB). The epidemiology of AFB is driven by the extreme spore resilience, the difficulty of bees to remove these spores, and the considerabl...

Source: BMC Ecology - March 6, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: J örg G. Stephan, Joachim R. de Miranda and Eva Forsgren Tags: Research article Source Type: research