Detection of atypical  Melissococcus plutonius  in honeybees

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2012 English Publisher:WileyJournal:Veterinary Record, volume 171, pages 630-630 (issn: 0042-4900, eissn: 2042-7670,

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Authors: Daisuke, Takamatsu; Masatoshi, Okura; Mikio, Yoshiyama; Meihua, Wu; Rie, Arai; Yuiko, Morinaga;

doi: 10.1136/vr.e8457

pmid: 23248116

Detection of atypical Melissococcus plutonius in honeybees

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Abstract

EUROPEAN foulbrood (EFB) is one of the most important bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae. The causative agent, Melissococcus plutonius , is a one genus-one species bacterium and had been thought to be remarkably homogeneous on the basis of morphological, physiological, immunological, and genetic studies (Bailey and Gibbs 1962, Allen and Ball 1993, Djordjevic and others 1999). However, Arai and colleagues (2012) recently reported the presence of an atypical type of M plutonius strains that is phenotypically and genetically …

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National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
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University of Tsukuba
Japan

Keywords

Enterococcaceae, Animals, Bees

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