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MALADIE NOIRE [2 records]

Record 1 2012-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

A contagiously transmitted infection of adult bees caused by multiplication of chronic paralysis virus (CPV) primarily in the brain, nerve ganglia and in the hind-gut epithelium, ... common disease of adult bees that has striking, well-defined symptoms characterised by trembling, flightless individuals crawling on the ground beneath the colony entrance.

CONT

Chronic bee paralysis is a rather unusual disease caused by a rather unusual virus. ... Paralysis is the only common viral disease of adult bees whose symptoms include both behavioural and physiological modifications: trembling and hair loss. The disease often affects the strong colonies of an apiary and thousands of dead individuals are then observed in front of the hives.

CONT

The chronic paralysis is an infectious and contagious disease of adult honey bees caused by the chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV). [It] has been given a variety of names such as “hairless black syndrome” ... and is the only common viral disease of adult bees that has well-described symptoms, which include abnormal trembling from wings and body. Some individuals become almost hairless and dark in appearance and suffer nibbling attacks from healthy bees of their colony. Affected bees become flightless, often crawling on the ground and on the stems of grass, sometimes in masses of thousands of individuals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Maladie infectieuse et contagieuse des abeilles adultes [...], due au virus de la paralysie chronique [...], les principaux symptômes [...] sont des tremblements du corps et des ailes (mouvement de chorée), des abeilles malades qui [...] sont rejetées par les gardiennes devant la ruche (comportement de houspillage). Des tapis d’abeilles mortes dont certaines ont les ailes écartées (ailes en croix) se constituent.

CONT

Maladie noire. [...] Cette maladie atteint seulement l’abeille adulte et touche les tissus nerveux et du tube digestif. L’abeille perds ses poils, le corps est plus petit car ne s’alimente que peu ou pas. Les abeilles ont un aspect noir et se font sortir par les autres de la ruche.

OBS

paralysie chronique en opposition avec la paralysie aiguë.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de abejas
  • Enfermedades de los animales
DEF

[Enfermedad producida por un virus que ataca] abejas adultas [las cuales presentan] sintomatología nerviosa, arrastrándose, temblores, incapacidad de volar, encontrándose abejas oscuras (negras), alopécicas y de superficie brillante, con menor tamaño al promedio, las cuales [son] rechazadasen la piquera al tratar de ingresar.

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Record 2 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
CONT

Black Sigatoka is a leaf spot disease of banana that can cut a tree's fruit production in half. The fungal disease causes dark leaf area to turn yellow and brown ... The fungus that causes black Sigatoka, Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is spread from tree to tree by wind, rain, and irrigation water.

CONT

[The] black leaf streak disease (popularly known as 'black Sigatoka'), caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is the most widespread and important of three major species of leaf-spot diseases affecting banana and plantain.

OBS

The name black Sigatoka was given to the disease because it was first discovered ... in the Sigatoka Valley of Fiji.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Arboriculture fruitière
CONT

[...] la cercosporiose noire (ou maladie de Sigatoka noire), causée par Mycosphaerella fijiensis, est la plus répandue et importante des trois espèces principales de maladie de tache des feuilles qui affligent la banane et la banane plantain [...]

Spanish

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