Sentence examples for bees were infected with from inspiring English sources
The bees were infected with just about every bee virus known, including deformed-wing virus, sac-brood virus, and black-queen-cell virus, and also by various fungi and bacteria.
Working with scientists at the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Centre in Maryland, who have developed expertise in detecting and analysing biological molecules, Professor Bromenshenk and his colleagues found that many of the bees were infected with both a virus, called invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV), and a fungus known as Nosema apis.
Mariano Higes, a scientist heading a team at a government-funded apiculture centre in Guadalajara, Spain, has reported that when hives of European honey bees were infected with Nosema ceranae, a microsporidian fungus, the colonies were wiped out within eight days.
All the honey bees were infected with at least one virus; in comparison, 30.8% pollen pellets were free from any virus tested in this study.
Bees were infected with various strains of Crithidia for either 24 or 48 hours.
We used both colonies and bees were infected with either strain 6 or 8.
In the 1970s, in northern India, almost every bee was infected with IIV-24, with 25 40 percent annual colony loss [25], [26].
In 1994, when blacks in this country voted for the first time, about 10percentt of adults in Hlabisa (pronounced shla-BEE-sa) were infected with H.I.V., the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS.
As no one disease agent was found in all CCD colonies, and because bees derived from CCD colonies were infected with more pathogens then their control colony counterparts, we suspect that while pathogen infection may cause the symptoms of collapse, these infections are secondary and are the result of some other factor or combination of factors that reduce the bees' ability to mitigate infection.
In an expanded collection of 65 honey bee pollen foragers in 2007, all foragers were infected with at least one virus with most having multiple infections.
