Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Sección Etología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
J Invertebr Pathol. 2019 Jan;160:95-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2018.11.004. Epub 2018 Nov 15.
Trypanosomatids affecting honey bees, Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim, have been poorly studied in South America. We therefore analyzed their presence in Africanized and European honeybees from Uruguay, Argentina and Chile collected between 1990 and 2011 and assessed their association with other bee parasites and pathogens. Crithidia mellificae was not detected while L. passim was wide-spread. This report shows that L. passim has been present in this region at least since 2007 and it infects both Africanized and European honey bees. L. passim infected colonies showed high V. destructor parasitization levels, suggesting an association between them.
在南美洲,研究人员对感染蜜蜂的克氏锥虫和利什曼原虫关注较少。因此,研究人员分析了 1990 年至 2011 年间在乌拉圭、阿根廷和智利采集的非洲化蜜蜂和欧洲蜜蜂中这两种寄生虫的存在情况,并评估了它们与其他蜜蜂寄生虫和病原体的关系。未检测到克里氏锥虫,但利什曼原虫广泛存在。本报告表明,至少从 2007 年开始,该地区就存在利什曼原虫,并且它会感染非洲化蜜蜂和欧洲蜜蜂。感染利什曼原虫的蜂群中,瓦螨的寄生率很高,这表明它们之间存在关联。