Author:
Hornitzky M. A. Z.,Smith L. A.
Abstract
Summary. The effectiveness of the antibiotic
oxytetracycline hydrochloride) against the bacterium
Melissococcus pluton, which causes European foulbrood in
honey bees (Apis mellifera) was investigated in this
study. The minimum inhibitory concentration of oxytetracycline hydrochloride
for 104 M. pluton isolates cultured from samples of
brood and honey collected from A. mellifera colonies in
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania was determined. The
minimum inhibitory concentration was 1 g/mL for 51 isolates, and 2
g/mL for 53 isolates. These results indicate that, although
oxytetracycline hydrochloride has been used exclusively for the past 22 years
to treat European foulbrood, Australian isolates of
M. pluton are still sensitive to this antibiotic.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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