Characterization of Bifidobacteria in the Indigenous Honeybee of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The results presented in this paper demonstrate that most of the honeybee gut Bifidbacteria have potential antbacterial activities against different drug multiresistant human pathogens. Bacteria associated with the native Saudi Arabian honeybee, A. m. jemenitica could be used to develop various pathogen management strategies. The use of symbiotic gut bacteria could represent a natural alternative to the use of synthetic antibiotics in the control of various humandisease caused by pathogenic bacteria, which should therefore reduce antibiotic resistance and the levels of antibiotic residues. Further research must be conducted on these beneficial bacteria to isolate the active antagonistic compound that kill these human pathogens.