Comprehensive Bee Pathogen Screening in Belgium Reveals Crithidia mellificae as a New Contributory Factor to Winter Mortality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ravoet, Jorgen ^a   Maharramov, Jafar ^a   Meeus, Ivan ^a   De Smet, Lina ^a   Wenseleers, Tom ^b   Smagghe, Guy ^a   de Graaf, Dirk C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID LETHAL PARALYSIS VIRUS; APICOMPLEXA; APICYSTIS BOMBI; ARTICLE; BEE; BELGIUM; BLACK QUEEN CELL VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA MELLIFICAE; DICISTROVIRIDAE; HONEYBEE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT VIRUS; LAKE SINAI VIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; PARASITE EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA APIS; SPIROPLASMA MELLIFERUM; SUMMER; VARROA DESTRUCTOR; VARROA DESTRUCTOR MACULA LIKE VIRUS; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BEES; BELGIUM; CRITHIDIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SEASONS;

EID: 84883061594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072443     Document Type: Article

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