foulbrood

plural foulbroods

1. uncountableusuallyA bacterial disease of bees.

   There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.

   2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times

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   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.

   2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553