AFB in yard

I have what appears to be AFB in one of my yards.  Since I have about 15
hives there I am loath to destroy all of them.  As a means of control I
am thinking of waiting until the end of the honey flow, then taking new
equipment with foundation in frames and using the shook swarm method of
replacing the equipment, shaking each hive into the new equipment and
getting rid of the old frames and scorching the contaminated equipment.
At the same time I'm moving the colonies to new equipment I would feed
heavily with medicated sugar syrup and medicated pollen substitute
patties.  Going through the archives I noticed a comment that dusting
works better than patties.  Would appreciate comments on this.  At the
conclusion of all of this moving, I plan to intensely monitor the hives
to see if there is a reoccurrence of AFB as I want to maintain the
colonies drug free in reference to AFB/EFB.  I am wondering if this
would be a good plan of procedure in the opinion of you master beekeepers?

Mike

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