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Identification of Paenibacillus larvae to the subspecies level: an obstacle for AFB diagnosis.
Journal of invertebrate pathology - 1 Feb 2006
de Graaf Dirk C, De Vos Paul, Heyndrickx Marc, Van Trappen Stefanie, Peiren Nico, Jacobs Frans J
Abstract excerpt
This study was initially aimed at developing a PCR-test to differentiate between the pathogenic agent of American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae) and powdery-scale disease (P. larvae subsp. pulvifaciens) of the honeybee. The test was based on the "insert of clone 9" (iC9), referring to a cloned 1.9 kB HaeIII fragment that occurs only in the P. larvae subsp. larvae reference strains and possibly...
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