Identification of bee's pathogens in bee products marketed in São Paulo State and the profile of bee health in Vale do Ribeira, SP

• Grant number: 12/18802-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Production
• Principal Investigator: Érica Weinstein Teixeira
• Grantee: Érica Weinstein Teixeira
• Host Institution: Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da Luz ; Dejair Message ; José Eduardo Serrão ; Maria Luisa Teles Marques Florencio Alves ; Marta Fonseca Martins

Abstract

Honey bee health is now a worldwide concern due to causes yet undefined phenomena such as population decline and mortality of honey bees that has been observed in apiaries from different countries and, more recently, also in Brazil. It is clear the higher incidence of health problems in Africanized bee colonies in the country, in contrast to what occurred in previous decades. Regarding the aspects of production, it is known that many beekeepers move their hives to areas planted with orange trees and eucalyptus in São Paulo state, coming even from other states, which also allow transit of pathogens. On the other hand, data from IBGE show São Paulo as the eighth in honey production, although appearing as one of the first exporters; it also indicates the transit of goods from other federal units. The current proposal aims to: a) evaluate the presence and / or prevalence of pathogens in honey bee products with SIF marketed in the state of São Paulo, considering the possibility of dispersing agents via such products; b) assess the presence and / or prevalence of pathogens in apiaries in Vale do Ribeira, SP, allowing the knowledge of the honey bee health profile of these apiaries and the proximity to the focus of American Foulbrood region occurred in 2006, near Curitiba (swarming may have dispersed the causative agent, the bacterium P. larvae). The information generated would serve as guidelines for government subsidies, since trade in bee products and aspects of globalization, as well as the displacement between regions of colonies, can play an important role in the dispersal of pathogens. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GUIMARES-CESTARO, LUBIANE; SERRO, JOSE EDUARDO; MARQUES FLORENCIO ALVES, MARIA LUISA TELES; MESSAGE, DEJAIR; TEIXEIRA, ERICA WEINSTEIN. A scientific note on occurrence of pathogens in colonies of honey bee Apis mellifera in Vale do Ribeira, Brazil. Apidologie, v. 48, n. 3, p. 384-386, MAY 2017. (12/18802-3)

GUIMARAES-CESTARO, LUBIANE; SERRAO, JOSE EDUARDO; MESSAGE, DEJAIR; MARTINS, MARTA FONSECA; TEIXEIRA, ERICA WEINSTEIN. Simultaneous detection of Nosema spp., Ascosphaera apis and Paenibacillus larvae in honey bee products. JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH, v. 49, p. 43-50, 2016. (12/18802-3)

CYNTHIA FERNANDES PINTO DA LUZ; LUBIANE GUIMARÃES-CESTARO; JOSÉ EDUARDO SERRÃO; DEJAIR MESSAGE; MARTA FONSECA MARTINS; MARIA LUISA TELES MARQUES FLORÊNCIO ALVES; MARÍA CARMEN SEIJO-COELLO; ÉRICA WEINSTEIN TEIXEIRA. Usando evidências palinológicas em geléia real para intervir na disseminação de Paenibacillus larvae no Brasil. Hoehnea, v. 45, n. 3, p. 512-539, 2018-09-00. (12/18802-3)

TEIXEIRA, ERICA WEINSTEIN; GUIMARAES-CESTARO, LUBIANE; MARQUES FLORENCIO ALVES, MARIA LUISA TELES; MESSAGE, DEJAIR; MARTINS, MARTA FONSECA; PINTO DA LUZ, CYNTHIA FERNANDES; SERRAO, JOSE EDUARDO. Spores of Paenibacillus larvae, Ascosphaera apis, Nosema ceranae and Nosema apis in bee products supervised by the Brazilian Federal Inspection Service. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, v. 62, n. 3, p. 188-194, JUL-SEP 2018. (12/18802-3)

SCHWARZ, RYAN S.; TEIXEIRA, ERICA WEINSTEIN; TAUBER, JAMES P.; BIRKE, JULIANE M.; MARTINS, MARTA FONSECA; FONSECA, ISABELA; EVANS, JAY D.. Honey bee colonies act as reservoirs for two Spiroplasma facultative symbionts and incur complex, multiyear infection dynamics. MICROBIOLOGYOPEN, v. 3, n. 3, p. 341-355, JUN 2014. (12/18802-3)