Table 1. Honey-bee pathogen incidence by colony status.
Pathogen | Present,non-CCD colony | Absent,non-CCD colony | Proportion present, non-CCD colony | Present,CCD colony | Absent,CCD colony | Proportion present, CCD colony | P-value |
ABPV | 30 | 33 | 0.48 | 31 | 30 | 0.51 | 0.722 |
BQCV | 53 | 10 | 0.84 | 55 | 6 | 0.90 | 0.314 |
DWV | 26 | 37 | 0.41 | 38 | 23 | 0.62 | 0.019 |
IAPV | 10 | 53 | 0.16 | 15 | 46 | 0.25 | 0.225 |
KBV | 8 | 55 | 0.13 | 23 | 38 | 0.38 | 0.001 |
SBV | 9 | 54 | 0.14 | 16 | 45 | 0.26 | 0.096 |
NC | 36 | 27 | 0.57 | 41 | 20 | 0.67 | 0.247 |
NA | 6 | 57 | 0.10 | 20 | 41 | 0.33 | 0.001 |
Crithidia | 49 | 14 | 0.78 | 53 | 8 | 0.87 | 0.182 |
Values are the number of colony samples (n = 61 for CCD and n = 63 for non-CCD) in which the pathogen was detected at any level. The likelihood ratio chi-square test of contingency was used to compute the probability of equal pathogen incidence in CCD and non-CCD colonies. ABPV = acute bee paralysis virus; DWV = deformed wing virus; SBV = sacbrood virus; BQCV = black queen cell virus; IAPV = Israeli acute paralysis virus; KBV = Kashmir bee virus; NC = Nosema ceranae; NA = Nosema apis.