Editing Nosema apis (section)

{{Short description|Species of microsporidian parasite}}
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| taxon = Nosema apis
| authority =([[Enoch Zander|Zander]], 1909)
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'''''Nosema apis''''' is a [[microsporidia]]n, a small, unicellular [[parasite]] recently reclassified as a fungus that mainly affects [[honey bee]]s. It causes '''nosemosis''', also called '''nosema''', which is the most common and widespread of adult honey bee diseases.<ref>Johannes Eckert, Karl Theodor Friedhoff, Horst Zahner, Peter Deplazes: ''Lehrbuch der Parasitologie für die Tiermedizin (German).'' 2nd Ed., Georg Thieme 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-8304-1072-0}}, p.&nbsp;140.</ref> The dormant stage of ''N. apis'' is a long-lived [[spore]] which is resistant to temperature extremes and dehydration, and cannot be killed by freezing the contaminated comb. Nosemosis is a listed disease with the [[Office International des Epizooties]] (OIE).