A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain

BACKGROUND: The Small Hive Beetle (SHB) is considered one of the major threats to the long-term sustainability and economic success of honey bee colonies in Europe. The risk of introduction into the EU had been reported as moderate to high. Indeed, it has been recently reported an outbreak in the so...

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Autores principales: Cepero, Almudena, Higes, Mariano, Martínez-Salvador, Amparo, Meana, Aránzazu, Martín-Hernández, Raquel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25475654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-878
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author Cepero, Almudena
Higes, Mariano
Martínez-Salvador, Amparo
Meana, Aránzazu
Martín-Hernández, Raquel
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Higes, Mariano
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Martín-Hernández, Raquel
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description BACKGROUND: The Small Hive Beetle (SHB) is considered one of the major threats to the long-term sustainability and economic success of honey bee colonies in Europe. The risk of introduction into the EU had been reported as moderate to high. Indeed, it has been recently reported an outbreak in the south of Italy. Here, the presence of Aethina tumida in beekeeping farms in Spain was evaluated using a previously described qPCR protocol. FINDINGS: When hive debris from 398 colonies (collected in 2010 and 2011) was analysed, grouped by region, SHB were not detected in any of the samples, making it unnecessary to analyse the samples individually. CONCLUSION: The SHB free-status is shown. This epidemiological surveillance would appear to be useful to detect the possible future entry of this pathogen.
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spelling pubmed-42893312015-01-11 A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain Cepero, Almudena Higes, Mariano Martínez-Salvador, Amparo Meana, Aránzazu Martín-Hernández, Raquel BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: The Small Hive Beetle (SHB) is considered one of the major threats to the long-term sustainability and economic success of honey bee colonies in Europe. The risk of introduction into the EU had been reported as moderate to high. Indeed, it has been recently reported an outbreak in the south of Italy. Here, the presence of Aethina tumida in beekeeping farms in Spain was evaluated using a previously described qPCR protocol. FINDINGS: When hive debris from 398 colonies (collected in 2010 and 2011) was analysed, grouped by region, SHB were not detected in any of the samples, making it unnecessary to analyse the samples individually. CONCLUSION: The SHB free-status is shown. This epidemiological surveillance would appear to be useful to detect the possible future entry of this pathogen. BioMed Central 2014-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4289331/ /pubmed/25475654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-878 Text en © Cepero et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cepero, Almudena
Higes, Mariano
Martínez-Salvador, Amparo
Meana, Aránzazu
Martín-Hernández, Raquel
A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title_full A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title_fullStr A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title_full_unstemmed A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title_short A two year national surveillance for Aethina tumida reflects its absence in Spain
title_sort two year national surveillance for aethina tumida reflects its absence in spain
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25475654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-878
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