Peter posts: " the association between N. ceranae
and poor health of A. mellifera colonies may simply represent
reporting bias; a novel disease organism in moribund colonies will be
understandably publicised whereas it may go unsampled and unnoticed
if it does not have a marked pathological effect on its novel host." by
Roobert Paxton
We stated in our article that seeing Nosema plus virus in all of the CCD
operations that we sampled could be a consequence rather than a cause of a
collapse. The novel disease organism that we found belongs to a group of
viruses that typically have a covert phase that is hard to detect and that
does not have a marked pathological effect on its hosts, whereas patent
infections are almost invariably lethal.
We're conducting inoculation tests with whole colonies.
Jerry
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