title: Probiotic Treatment with a Gut Symbiont Leads to Parasite Susceptibility in Honey Bees.
abstract: Gut symbionts are critical for host health and as such might be used as probiotics. In a recent study, Schwarz et al. showed that pretreatment of honey bees with a dominant gut bacterium causes dysbiosis and increases pathogen susceptibility, showing that probiotic applications for animal health can have unwanted effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: philipp.engel@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Engel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D056265:Microbial Interactions; D010271:Parasites / Q000502:physiology*; D019936:Probiotics