Dynamics of Apis mellifera filamentous virus (AmFV) infections in honey bees and relationships with other parasites

Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2654-2667

  Hartmann, Ulrike ^a   Forsgren, Eva ^b   Charrière, Jean Daniel ^a   Neumann, Peter ^a,c   Gauthier, Laurent ^a  

^a Swiss Bee Research Centre   (Switzerland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Filamentous virus; Microsporidia; RNA viruses; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA FILAMENTOUS VIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA VIRUS; GENE DOSAGE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROSPORIDIA; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA CERANAE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA VIRUS; SPRING; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; BEE; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA LIGUSTICA; APOIDEA; DNA VIRUSES; MICROSPORIDIA; RNA VIRUSES;

DNA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA VIRUSES; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROSPORIDIA; RNA VIRUSES; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84930936066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v7052654     Document Type: Article

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