American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The most severe bacterial disease of honeybees is American foulbrood (AFB). The epidemiology of AFB is driven by the extreme spore resilience, the difficulty of bees to remove these spores, and the considerable incidence of undetected spore-producing colonies. The honeybee collective defence mechanisms and their feedback on colony development, which involves a division of labour at multiple levels of colony organization, are difficult to model. To better predict disease outbreaks we need to understand the feedback between colony development and disease progression within the colony. We therefore developed Bayesian models with data from forty AFB-diseased colonies monitored over an entire foraging season to (i) investigate the relationship between spore production and sym

SUBMITTER: Stephan JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060557 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature