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‖ pébrine|pebrin|
[mod.F. ad. Prov. pebrino, f. pebre pepper, in reference to the black spots (A. de Quatrefages 1858, in Comptes Rendus XLVII. 530).]
A disease of silkworms, caused by the microsporidian parasite Nosema bombycis (cf. nosema), and characterized by the appearance of dark spots on the insect, whose growth is stunted.
1870Tyndall in Nature 7 July 181/2 The name pébrine, first applied to the plague by M. de Quatrefages, and adopted by Pasteur. 1873A. S. Packard Our Common Insects iii. 47 The still more formidable disease called pebrine is thought to be of vegetable origin. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 946 [The transmission] of the sporozoa of pebrine from the silkworm moth to its eggs and caterpillar. 1911Proc. Zool. Soc. 625 The parasite Nosema apis was closely allied to that of pébrine, the silkworm disease due to Nosema bombycis. 1912E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xvi. 412 The Microsporidia first attained an unenviable notoriety through the ravages caused by Nosema bombycis, the cause of ‘pébrine’ or silkworm-disease. 1964T. C. Cheng Biol. Animal Parasites v. 141/2 Nosema bombycis is parasitic in silk⁓worms and causes the fatal pébrine disease. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 291 The microsporidian disease is called pebrine in France for the telltale spots on the infected silkworm. 1973M. A. Sleigh Biol. Protozoa x. 245 Nosema bombycis, is responsible for the pebrine disease of silkworms, in which tissue cells of any type may be infected at any stage of growth. |