Chronic bee paralysis virus and Nosema ceranae experimental co-infection of winter honey bee workers (Apis mellifera L.)

Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2282-2297

  Toplak, Ivan ^a   Jamnikar Ciglenečki, Urška ^a   Aronstein, Katherine ^b   Gregorc, Aleš ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV); Experimental infection; Interaction; Nosema ceranae

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEE DISEASE; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE DOSAGE; INOCULATION; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; NOSEMOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BEES; COINFECTION; FEMALE; INSECT VIRUSES; NOSEMA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84884603924     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v5092282     Document Type: Article

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