Table 1.

Survival [%] of newly emerged adult worker bees upon artificial infection with E. coli and ABPV

Time (h) p.i.	Uninfecteda	E. coli a 105 cells	ABPVa
			104 b	103 b	102 b
24	100 ± 0	99 ± 1.7	54.3 ± 27.7	82.7 ± 30	98.3 ± 2.9
48	100 ± 0	95.3 ± 4.5	6.3 ± 6.5	56.7 ± 24.5	95.3 ± 4.5
72	93.7 ± 3.2	83.7 ± 3.8	0	0	91 ± 6.6

Each group consisted originally of 25 individuals kept together in small cages in an incubator at 35 °C

^aThe results show the mean ± standard deviation (SD) of three independent series of experiments

^bNumber of injected ABPV particles per bee