Health status of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) and disease-related risk factors for colony losses in Austria

• Linde Morawetz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: linde.morawetz@ages.at

  Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-4660

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• Hemma Köglberger,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Antonia Griesbacher,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Statistics and Analytical Epidemiology, Division for Data, Statistics & Risk Assessment, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Graz, Styria, Austria

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• Irmgard Derakhshifar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Karl Crailsheim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria

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• Robert Brodschneider,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2535-0280

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• Rudolf Moosbeckhofer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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