The occurrence of Melissococcus plutonius in healthy colonies of Apis mellifera and the efficacy of European foulbrood control measures

• Main Authors: Giles E. Budge, Ben Barrett, Ben Jones, Stéphane Pietravalle, Gay Marris, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Richard Thwaites, Jayne Hall, Andrew G.S. Cuthbertson, Mike A. Brown
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=77956183147&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/50431
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

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 Shoo...