Effects of natural treatments on the varroa mite infestation levels and overall health of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

• Laura Narciso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Martina Topini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martina Topini, Sonia Ferraiuolo

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Sonia Ferraiuolo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martina Topini, Sonia Ferraiuolo

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Giovanni Ianiro,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Cinzia Marianelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cinzia.marianelli@iss.it

  Affiliation Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-4574

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