loque américaine

CONT: American foulbrood affects the larval stage of the honey bee Apis mellifera and other Apis spp. [species], and occurs throughout the world. Paenibacillus larvae, the causative organism, is a bacterium that can produce over one billion spores in each infected larva.
OBS: The names ""American foulbrood"" and ""European foulbrood"" have nothing to do with the distribution of these two diseases. It is merely that an American, G.F. White, described one and Europeans described the other, both around 1906.

OBS: Cuando se presenta la loque americana se observan muchas celdas desoperculadas [...]. Los opérculos de las celdas con cría muerta se levantan un poco, tornándose más oscuros. Una larva de menos de 24 horas puede ser infectada con sólo una espora y muere al final de la fase larval e inicio de pupa [...]
OBS: loque americana: Término proveniente del Código Zoosanitario Internacional, 2002.