Flying honey bees adsorb airborne viruses

Aerobiologia

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-149

  Lighthart, Bruce ^a   Prier, Kevin R S ^a   Bromenshenk, Jerry J ^b  

^a Microbial Aerosol Res Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Airborne; Bacteriophage MS2; Electrostatic charge; Virus

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; FLYING; HONEYBEE; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

AIRBORNE VIRUS; APINAE; APIS; APOIDEA;

EID: 23744475397     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-005-4185-9     Document Type: Article

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