background tick paralysis is a disease of human and animals characterized by an acute ascending flaccid motor paralysis. the condition may terminate fatally unless the tick(s) are removed before respiratory paralysis occurs. patient a 48 years old female was referred to a clinic in tehran with edema at the head and neck regions. she had fever and disequilibrium. she reported a travel to mountai...

Abstract: Since the last decade, unusually high honey bee colony losses have been reported mainly in North-America and Europe. Here, we report on a comprehensive bee pathogen screening in Belgium covering 363 bee colonies that were screened for 18 known disease-causing pathogens and correlate their incidence in summer with subsequent winter mortality. Our analyses demonstrate that in addition t...

Viruses are key population regulators, but we have limited knowledge of the diversity and ecology viruses. This is even case in wild host populations that provide ecosystem services, where small fitness effects may major ecological impacts aggregate. One such group hosts bumblebees, which a role pollination food crops suffered declines range contractions recent decades. In this study, investiga...

Abstract Surveys were conducted in Malatya and Elazığ provinces of Eastern Türkiye between 2018–2019 to detect the presence distribution Deformed wing virus (DWV), Acute bee paralysis (ABPV) Black queen cell (BQCV) infecting honey bees Varroa mites. Thirty mites feeding on 147 collected from twenty-five apiaries fifteen Elazığ. The samples subjected reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reacti...

A two-step real-time RT-PCR assay, based on TaqMan technology using a fluorescent probe (FAM-TAMRA) was developed to quantify Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) genome in bee samples. Standard curves obtained from a CBPV control RNA and from a plasmid containing a partial sequence of CBPV showed that this assay provided linear detection over a 7-log range (R(2)>0.99) with a limit of detection o...

Honey bees play an important agricultural and ecological role as pollinators of numerous agricultural crops and other plant species. Therefore, investigating the factors associated with high annual losses of honey bee colonies in the US is an important and active area of research. Pathogen incidence and abundance correlate with Colony Collapse Disorder- (CCD-) affected colonies in the US and co...

Since the last decade, unusually high honey bee colony losses have been reported mainly in North-America and Europe. Here, we report on a comprehensive bee pathogen screening in Belgium covering 363 bee colonies that were screened for 18 known disease-causing pathogens and correlate their incidence in summer with subsequent winter mortality. Our analyses demonstrate that, in addition to Varroa ...

bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a rare and preventable complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. herein, we report a fatal case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (acd/f). a 65-year-old man with cervical spine trauma and anterior cord syndrome, following car overturn presented to our emergency department. the patient had c6-t10 prola...

BACKGROUND Acute suppurative thyroiditis is an increasingly rare entity, accounting for less than 0.1% of thyroid surgery. This is the first report in the literature of acute thyroiditis causing a unilateral reversible vocal cord paralysis. METHODS A 41-year-old woman was initially seen with a unilateral vocal cord paralysis resulting from acute suppurative thyroiditis. RESULTS The vocal co...