In a message dated 01/03/2008 13:19:16 GMT Standard Time,  
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Nosema  ceranae is running rampant in some operations-- these guys are
calling me  and buying scopes to do their own testing.




I have spent the day at a microscopy workshop where 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.
 
Chris



   

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