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usually uncountable, plural foulbroods
A bacterial disease of bees. quotations examples
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
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