After more than a century of American Foulbrood (AFB) research, this fatal brood infection is
still among the most deleterious bee diseases. Its etiological agent is the Gram-positive …

Anthropogenic climate change and increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) together
threaten the last 50 years of public health gains. Honey bees are a model One Health …

Gut-associated bacteria were isolated in axenic culture from the honey bee Apis mellifera
and the bumble bees Bombus bimaculatus and B. vagans and are here placed in the novel …

It has become increasingly clear that gut bacteria play vital roles in the development,
nutrition, immunity, and overall fitness of their eukaryotic hosts. We conducted the present …

The phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly real and relevant
health problem. It is essential to verify the spread of this phenomenon in the environment …

The bee diseases American and European foulbrood and nosemosis can be treated with
anti-infectious agents. However, in the EU and the USA the use of these agents in …

The honey bee disease American foulbrood (AFB) is a serious problem since its causative
agent (Paenibacillus larvae) has become increasingly resistant to conventional antibiotics …

Antibiotics have been applied to honey bee (Apis mellifera) hives for decades to treat
Paenibacillus larvae, which causes American foulbrood disease and kills honey bee larvae …

Recurrent honeybee losses make it critical to understand the impact of human interventions,
such as antibiotic use in apiculture. Antibiotics are used to prevent or treat bacterial …

As a result of the strong structural and functional similarities between the innate immune
system of mammals and the insect immune response, insects have been exploited for …