parafoulbrood

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English

Etymology

From para- +‎ foulbrood.

Noun

parafoulbrood (uncountable)

  1. 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.