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English
Etymology
From para- + foulbrood.
Noun
parafoulbrood (uncountable)
- A bacterial disease of bees.
1933, Experiment Station Record, volume 69, page 560:Parafoulbrood is extremely infectious, apparently being readily transmitted by robbing, drifting, and by the exchange of brood or honey from infected colonies.
- 1951, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Committee Prints (issue 3, page 2563)
- Determination of causative organisms of European foulbrood and parafoulbrood needs investigation.
2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553:At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.