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. 2009 Feb 20;75(8):2554–2557. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02908-08

TABLE 1.

Percentages of infected honey bees in the different test groupsa

Group Temp (°C) % of infected bees on p.i. day:
1 2 3 4 7
N. apis-exposed bees 25 33 53 100 100 100
33 66 93 100 100 100
37 53 60 60 60 0
N. ceranae-exposed bees 25 100 100 100 100 100
33 100 100 100 100 100
37 100 100 100 100 100
Controls 25 0 0 0 0 0
33 0 0 0 0 0
37 0 0 0 0 0
a

A bee is considered to be infected when at least one spore is observed in the hemocytometer's entire central square millimeter grid (19).