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| Nosema apis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Microsporidia |
| Family: | Nosematidae |
| Genus: | Nosema |
| Species: | N. apis
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| Binomial name | |
| Nosema apis (Zander, 1909)
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Nosema apis is a microsporidian, a small, unicellular parasite recently reclassified as a fungus that mainly affects honey bees. It causes nosemosis, also called nosema, which is the most common and widespread of adult honey bee diseases.[1] The dormant stage of N. apis is a long-lived spore which is resistant to temperature extremes and dehydration, and cannot be killed by freezing the contaminated comb. Nosemosis is a listed disease with the Office International des Epizooties (OIE).
- ^ Johannes Eckert, Karl Theodor Friedhoff, Horst Zahner, Peter Deplazes: Lehrbuch der Parasitologie für die Tiermedizin (German). 2nd Ed., Georg Thieme 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1072-0, p. 140.