Lysozyme and Its Role during Honey Bee Nosematosis

When lysozyme was present in bee food the beginning of dying out both of healthy and infected insects became later in 15-18 days after the beginning of our experiment. The quantity of healthy bees perished in 30 days following the beginning of our experiment was twice higher in the enzyme absence in bee food. The favorable lysozyme effect was higher with its higher concentration (60 μg/ml), both mortality curves (for healthy and Na-infected bees) being similar. Only 26.2% of infected bees perished following lysozyme treatment comparing to 73.3% of such insects in control variant.