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SUBMITTER: Lopez JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5286422 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
López Javier Hernández JH Krainer Sophie S Engert Antonia A Schuehly Wolfgang W Riessberger-Gallé Ulrike U Crailsheim Karl K
Scientific reports 20170201
Disclosing interactions between pesticides and bee infections is of most interest to understand challenges that pollinators are facing and to which extent bee health is compromised. Here, we address the individual and combined effect that three different pesticides (dimethoate, clothianidin and fluvalinate) and an American foulbrood (AFB) infection have on mortality and the cellular immune response of honeybee larvae. We demonstrate for the first time a synergistic interaction when larvae are ex ...[more]