EFFICIENCY OF SOME ANTIBIOTICS APPLIED TO CONTROL AMERICAN FOULBROOD DISEASE INFECTING HONEY BEE COLONIES , Apis mellifera L. | ||||
| Journal of Productivity and Development | ||||
| Article 9, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2019, Page 153-164 PDF (509.68 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpd.2019.41327 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mostafa Abdel-Baset1; Hamza El-Sharkawy2; Fathy Elsanteel2; hmed Khattaby1 | ||||
| 1Plant Protection Research Institute, A.R.C., Dokki, Giza – Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Technology &Development, Zagazig University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present study was carried out during summer season of 2017 in a private apiary located in sefyta village at Sharkia Governorate to investigate the effect of three antibiotics applied in different methods to control the American foulbrood disease(AFB) caused by Paenibacillus larvae. Obtained results cleared that the most potent antibiotic used to control AFB was tylosin which showed the highest efficiency when used in powdered sugar as it resulted in the highest reduction percentage in the numbers of infected cells, being insignificantly differed as compared to rifampcine in powdered sugar. On the other hand, the antibiotic oxytetracycline showed the least efficiency. Control colonies showed an increase in the number of infected cells. Conclusively, Tylosin was the most effective antibiotic used in controlling American foulbrood disease when it used in the powdered sugar methods in decreasing the number of infected cells where the average number of infected cell decreased from183.33 before treatment to 10.00 after the 4th treatment and in the reduction percentage, where its reduction percentage was 96.47%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| American foulbrood; Paenibacillus larvae; Honey bee; Apis mellifera; control; antibiotics | ||||
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