دراسة أولية عن فيروسات شلل نحل العسل في بعض المحافظات السورية

Abstract EN

Beekeeping suffered from a sharp decrease in the number of bee colonies in Syria during the past few years that reached 13.73%.

The objective of this research was to detect the presence of honey bee paralysis viruses which include Acute bee paralysis virus, Israeli acute bee paralysis virus and Kashmir bee virus, and to investigate their spread in six provinces in Syria.

The results showed that only Acute bee paralysis virus was detected in three apiaries from the provinces of Damascus, Homs and Hama.

The established phylogenetic tree was divided into two main clusters, and the second sub-cluster from the second main cluster included the Syrian isolates.

The homology between Syrian isolates was 99-100%.

Syria-H3 and Syria-H5 isolates collected from Homs and Hama were identical with bootstrap index of 92.2%, whereas the homology between Serbia isolate and Syrian isolates was 79.6-98.1%, and the divergence was 2-2.5%.This is the first report on the spread of Acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) in Syria.