Parasite and pathogen loads of bees from colonies considered to normal (control) or affected by CCD (N_t).

*<p>Where no statistic is presented, Fisher's exact test was used as some cells had fewer than 5 responses.</p>**<p>% of colonies infected with organism.</p>†<p>Load = mean abundance (number of varroa mites per bee) in colonies.</p>‡<p>Load = the percentage of bees infested with HBTM per colonies.</p><p>♠Load = mean abundance (number of spores per bee (×10⁶)) in colonies.</p><p>All pathogen loads are scaled relative to the geometric mean of honey bee housekeeping genes RPS5, MGsT, and actin <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006481#pone.0006481-Chen1" target="_blank">[37]</a>.