American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 1(9), 2021
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00103-21
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The antibiotic tylosin tartrate is used to treat honey bee hives to control Paenibacillus larvae , the bacterium that causes American foulbrood. We found that bees from tylosin-treated hives had gut microbiomes with depleted overall diversity as well as reduced absolute abundances and strain diversity of the beneficial bee gut bacteria Snodgrassella alvi and Bifidobacterium spp.