Deformed wing virus: Replication and viral load in mites (Varroa destructor)

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 463-467

  Gisder, Sebastian ^a   Aumeier, Pia ^b   Genersch, Elke ^a  

^a Institute for Bee Research   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; FORELIMB; MITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; INFESTATION; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACARI; APOIDEA; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; GENOME, VIRAL; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; PUPA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUSES; WING;

EID: 62749097381     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.005579-0     Document Type: Article

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