Anna Nilsson

I am a microbiologist working with honey bee health, with a focus on bacterial diseases in honey bees.

Since 2023, I am the manager of the Swedish National Reference Laboratory for Bee Health at SLU. We work with disease diagnostics for honey bees within Sweden’s bee inspection system on behalf of the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

Nilsson, A., D’Alvise, P., Milbrath, M.O., Forsgren, E. 2024. Lactic acid bacteria in Swedish honey bees during outbreaks of American foulbrood. Ecology and Evolution 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10964

Ribeiro, H.G., Nilsson, A., Melo, L.D.R., Oliveira, A., 2022. Analysis of intact prophages in genomes of Paenibacillus larvae: An important pathogen for bees. Frontiers in Microbiology 13. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.903861

de Oliveira., Nilsson, A., Hyeyoung, K., Hallgren, G., Frössling, J., Kristiansen, L., Forsgren, E. (2021). Honey bee pathogens and parasites in Swedish apiaries: a baseline study. Journal of Apicultural Research. Published online: 13 Apr 2021

Johansson, C., Kampmann, C., Nilsson, A., Dicksved, J., Engstrand, L., Rautelin H. (2021). Genomic and Phenotypic Characteristics in Geographically Separated Clinical Campylobacter jejuni ST353CC Isolates. Microorganisms 9, 2540 (2021)

Nilsson, A., Skarp, A., Johansson, C., Kaden, R., Engstrand, L., and Rautelin, H. (2018). Characterization of Swedish Campylobacter coli clade 2 and clade 3 water isolates. MicrobiologyOpen. Aug 1;7(4):e00583

Nilsson, A., Johansson, C., Skarp, A., Kaden, R., Bertilsson, S., Rautelin, H. (2018) Survival of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli water isolates in lake and well water. APMIS. Sep 1;126(9):762‐70.