title: American Foulbrood in honeybees and its causative agent, Paenibacillus larvae.
abstract: After more than a century of American Foulbrood (AFB) research, this fatal brood infection is still among the most deleterious bee diseases. Its etiological agent is the Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae. Huge progress has been made, especially in the last 20 years, in the understanding of the disease and of the underlying host-pathogen interactions. This review will place these recent developments in the study of American Foulbrood and of P. larvae into the general context of AFB research.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Bee Research, Friedrich-Engels-Str. 32, 16540 Hohen Neuendorf, Germany. elke.genersch@rz.hu-berlin.de
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Genersch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056630:Beekeeping; D001516:Bees / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000502:physiology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions / Q000502:physiology; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007814:Larva / Q000382:microbiology; D056507:Paenibacillus / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology