Published in Scientific Works. Series C. Veterinary Medicine, Vol. LXVII, Issue 1
Written by Ion RĂDOI, Viorica LAGUNOVSCHI-LUCHIAN, Florentin MILEA, Iuliana CODREANU, Stefania RAITA, Vasilică SAVU, Agripina ŞAPCALIU, Bogdan TACHE, Roxana ZAHARIA, Luiza BĂDIC, Dan BODESCU
The purpose of this work is to monitor bee health through the morpho-clinical testing and laboratory examination of live bee samples and brood comb for the prophylaxis and control of bee ascospherosis. We investigated in the active year 2020 a number of 68 samples (34 samples of live bees and 34 samples of brood combs). Samples were collected in the beginning of the inactive season and examined morpho-clinically and in the laboratory. The laboratory method employed was in accordance with OIE regulations (2008) and adapted to an original methodology in the Pathology Laboratory of ICDA. Laboratory test results emphasized the presence of Ascosphera apis fructification bodies and hyphae in 20 live bee intestines (58.82%) the remaining 14 samples being negative (41.18%). The morpho-clinical testing of the 34 brood comb samples proved the existence of chalk brood in 10 samples (29.41%), the respective samples being correlated to the existence of Ascosphaera in the live bee intestines sample, and the remaining 24 samples were negative (70.59%).
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