APIS Volume 19, Number 3, March 2001
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... htm#4> in spite of evidence that it affects colony productivity <http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~mts/apishtm/apis95/apdec95.htm#T4>. However, Ms. Clay says current marketing information suggests that in the United States, use of the material has increased because nosema disease ( Nosema apis ) is being more recognized as an added stress on colonies that also have parasitic mites. According the Ms. Clay, the Canadian supply of fumagillin is produced in High River, Alberta by Medivet, and marketed as Fumagilin B®. She quotes Willie Baumgartner, Medivet’s owner, that fumagillin was originally patented by Upjohn, a pharmace ...