Prevalence and distribution patterns of seven different honeybee viruses in diseased colonies: a case study from Croatia

Apidologie

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 701-706

  Tlak Gajger, Ivana ^a   Kolodziejek, Jolanta ^b   Bakonyi, Tamás ^b,c   Nowotny, Norbert ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Croatia; honeybee viruses; RT PCR analyses; winter losses

Indexed keywords

COLONY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HONEYBEE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS;

CROATIA;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 84910132757     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-014-0287-0     Document Type: Article

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