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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 11202" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I have found hundreds of AFB in my lifetime and it's usually pretty obvious but I can recall three occasions where I couldn't be certain and in those cases I got it confirmed by a test. I also remember one case where an AP2 identified a hive as having AFB and because I had checked it for a friend a couple of weeks before I went back to confirm and it was just a bad case of PMS. My friend was too old and infirm to look after the hive properly so I arranged for a new person to take it over.</p><p>I don't really need tests to confirm AFB but they can be really useful when you have a large outbreak caused by your hives robbing somebody else's and you can clean out those hives that have a high spore load as they are going to eventually go clinical anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 11202, member: 207"] I have found hundreds of AFB in my lifetime and it's usually pretty obvious but I can recall three occasions where I couldn't be certain and in those cases I got it confirmed by a test. I also remember one case where an AP2 identified a hive as having AFB and because I had checked it for a friend a couple of weeks before I went back to confirm and it was just a bad case of PMS. My friend was too old and infirm to look after the hive properly so I arranged for a new person to take it over. I don't really need tests to confirm AFB but they can be really useful when you have a large outbreak caused by your hives robbing somebody else's and you can clean out those hives that have a high spore load as they are going to eventually go clinical anyway. [/QUOTE]
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