Symposium on the Emerging infectious agents in Honey bees and OIE [World Organization for Animal Health] listed diseases
October 6, 2017
From: Anses [French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety]
Organised by: French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety & World Organization for Animal Health
Place : Istambul
During the 45th APIMONDIA congress held in Istanbul from 29th September to 4th October 2017, ANSES and OIE have organized a symposium on the “Emerging infectious agents in Honey bees and OIE listed diseases”. The ANSES laboratory located in Sophia Antipolis is OIE reference laboratory for honeybee diseases and the European reference laboratory for honeybee health.
Nine speakers from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina and USA are invited to the symposium. The Unit of honeybee pathology will be represented by the Dr. Marie-Pierre CHAUZAT who is OIE expert and the head of the EURL for honeybee health.
Emerging infectious agents will be presented and discussed during 12 conferences. The discussed topics will include the principal infectious and parasitic agents and the predators affecting honeybee health emerging worldwide : Vespa velutina, Crithidia spp., Lotmaria spp., Apicystis bombi, the viral AKI complex, Paenibacillus larvae, Melissococcus plutonius, the small hive beetle, the Tropilaelaps spp. mites and the varroosis.
The summaries of these scientific communications will be included in the APIMONDIA proceedings.
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