Chris said: we prepared slides of
>  Nosema ceranea from a sample kindly provided by the Central Science  Laboratory
>  and were unable visually to distinguish them from the N.apis  samples.  The  lab people who do it for a living can't be sure by looking  and so use a PCR  machine.

Hi Chris,
I'm seeing tremendous variablity in spore shape and size.  I thought
that I found some N apis in some colonies with dysentery.  However,
when I sent them in for PCR, they were all N ceranae.  If anyone has a
sample or slide of N apis, I would love for you to send it to me!

Randy

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