parafoulbrood

From para- +‎ foulbrood.

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.