EVALUATION EFFICACY OF CERTAIN ANTIBIOTICS AND ESSENTIAL OILS FOR CONTROLLING THE AMERICAN FOULBROOD DISEASE IN HONEYBEE COLONIES Apis mellifera L. | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1-10 PDF (681.31 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2014.193665 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ehab Wafeek Zidan | ||
| Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| American foulbrood (AFB) is one of the most devastating diseases of the honeybee colonies. Antibiotics (oxytetracyclin, tylosin and sodium salphte demidin) and essential oils thymol oil (Thymo vulgaris L.) and cinnamon oil (Cinnamomum zeylanicum). were evaluated efficacy for controlling American foulbrood disease attacking honeybee colonies. Antibiotics recorded to decrease the pathological consequences of Paenibacillus larvae subspecies larvae approached to (0.0%) after two weeks from the treated start. It is preferable to alternate the use of different antibiotics in order to prevent the development of drug resistance and given as to long term American foulbrood control and tactics for resistance management, whereas the essential oils were less efficacy for the inhibition of P. larvae subsp < /span>. larvae growth. AFB disease returned to appearance infected honeybee colonies after 65 days of thymol and cinnamon oils treatments ending. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Honeybee; American foulbrood; antibiotics; essential oils | ||
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