Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect
There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, performed to determine whether traditional appreciation of stingless bee honey from Costa Rica, over that of A. mellifera honey, is justified by this criterion. The stingless bee honeys were more active than that of A. mellifera against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa―currently the major causes of burn and wound infections. The results presented herein are among the first steps towards further study of antimicrobial components in Costa Rican stingless bee honey.
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oai:https:--repositorio.una.ac.cr:11056-189442021-08-10T22:56:04Z Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect Zamora Fallas, Luis Gabriel Arias, María Laura Aguilar Monge, Ingrid Umaña Rojas, Eduardo ABEJAS COSTA RICA APICULTURA MIEL MEDICINA ALTERNATIVA BEES BEEKEEPING HONEY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, performed to determine whether traditional appreciation of stingless bee honey from Costa Rica, over that of A. mellifera honey, is justified by this criterion. The stingless bee honeys were more active than that of A. mellifera against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa―currently the major causes of burn and wound infections. The results presented herein are among the first steps towards further study of antimicrobial components in Costa Rican stingless bee honey. Hay muy pocos registros sobre el uso de la miel de olla por parte de los indígenas de Costa Rica. Nuestra evaluación se refiere a la actividad antimicrobiana de muestras de miel de Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii y Apis mellifera, realizada para determinar si la apreciación tradicional de la miel de abeja sin aguijón de Costa Rica, sobre la miel de A. mellifera, está justificada por este criterio. Las mieles de abejas sin aguijón fueron más activas que las de A. mellifera contra Staphylococcus aureus y Pseudomonas aeruginosa, que actualmente son las principales causas de infecciones por quemaduras y heridas. Los resultados aquí presentados se encuentran entre los primeros pasos hacia un mayor estudio de los componentes antimicrobianos en la miel de abeja sin aguijón de Costa Rica. Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica Centro de Investigaciones Apícolas Tropicales 2021-03-25T15:31:58Z 2021-03-25T15:31:58Z 2012-11-19 http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248 978-1-4614-4960-7 http://hdl.handle.net/11056/18944 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7_37 10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7_37 eng Acceso embargado application/pdf Springer Pot-Honey: A Legacy of Stingless Bees 2013 |
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There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, performed to determine whether traditional appreciation of stingless bee honey from Costa Rica, over that of A. mellifera honey, is justified by this criterion. The stingless bee honeys were more active than that of A. mellifera against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa―currently the major causes of burn and wound infections. The results presented herein are among the first steps towards further study of antimicrobial components in Costa Rican stingless bee honey. |
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Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect |
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