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A Push-pull Protocol to Reduce Colonization of Bird Nest Boxes by Honey Bees
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[Pharmacological approach to control American foulbrood of honeybees]
1Research Institute of Animal Science in Biochemistry and Toxicology, Sagamihara, Japan.
Nihon Yakurigaku Zasshi. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica
|December 13, 1997
Abstract:
In this review, I will describe honeybee biology from my prospective as a veterinary pharmacologist and will provide a summary of my research project to search for effective drugs to control American foulbrood, a bacterial disease of honeybees. In conclusion, mirosamicin, a macrolide antibiotic, as a preventive and glutaral, an alkylating agent, as a disinfectant were the most promising drugs.
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