There has been some discussion across the networks concerning antibiotic
resistance to American foulbrood.  A workshop in Argentina where this
phenomenon has been found, see
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~mts/apishtm/apis96/apaug96.htm#2
 , will be held December 9 -14.  It is called Loque Americana de las
Abejas Tecnicas de Laboratorio para la deteccion e identificacion de
Panenibacillus larvae.  For further information, contact Ing. Agr.
Adriana M. Alippi, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, tel/fax:
54(021)3-3467 or email [log in to unmask]
 
Registration closes 22 November.
 
Tom Sanford