Other Animal Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
University of Guelph researchers hope a new discovery will help combat a disease killing honeybee populations around the world. The researchers have found a toxin released by the pathogen that causes American foulbrood disease — _Paenibacillus larvae_ (_P. larvae_) — and developed a lead-based inhibitor against it.
The finding provides much-needed insight into how the infection occurs, said Rod Merrill, a professor in Guelph’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a study
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