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. 2016 Dec;32(12):914-916.
doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.09.005. Epub 2016 Sep 30.

Probiotic Treatment with a Gut Symbiont Leads to Parasite Susceptibility in Honey Bees

Konstantin Schmidt  1 , Philipp Engel  2
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Probiotic Treatment with a Gut Symbiont Leads to Parasite Susceptibility in Honey Bees

Konstantin Schmidt et al. Trends Parasitol. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

Gut symbionts are critical for host health and as such might be used as probiotics. In a recent study, Schwarz et al. showed that pretreatment of honey bees with a dominant gut bacterium causes dysbiosis and increases pathogen susceptibility, showing that probiotic applications for animal health can have unwanted effects.

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