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SUBMITTER: Gkitsaki I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10397125 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gkitsaki Ioanna I Papachristoforou Alexandros A Michailidou Sofia S Karamvalis Nikolaos N Iliadis Ioannis I Graikini Dimitra D Sakarikou Christina C Tsoukis Evangelos E Argyriou Anagnostis A Giaouris Efstathios E
International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology 20230208 3
The present research investigated whether accidental contact through stinging with honeybees, wasps, and hornets could represent a microbial hazard for humans. It has been previously suggested that such contact may transmit pathogens causing infections that could even be fatal for some susceptible individuals. Stinging simulation experiments were performed in the lab with live insects collected from the environment in Lemnos Island (north-eastern Greece), while different selective agar media tar ...[more]