Regurgitated pellets of Merops apiaster as fomites of infective Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) spores

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1374-1379

  Higes, Mariano ^a   Martín Hernández, Raquel ^a   Garrido Bailón, Encarna ^a   Botías, Cristina ^a   García Palencia, Pilar ^b   Meana, Aránzazu ^b  

^a Regional Apicultural Center   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOMITE; FUNGUS SPORE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIRDS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOMITES; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSEMA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPORES, FUNGAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MEROPS APIASTER; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 41849103049     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01548.x     Document Type: Article

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