| 释义 |
nosema|nəʊˈsiːmə|
[mod.L. (C. W. von Nägeli 1857, in Amtlicher Bericht über die Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher XXXIII. 133), f. Gr. νόσηµα disease.]
A microsporidian protozoan parasite of the genus so called, esp. Nosema apis, identified in 1909 as the cause of an infectious dysentery affecting bees; also, the disease itself. Also attrib.
1911Fantham & Porter in Proc. Zool. Soc. 625 That Nosema apis was fatal to bees and allied Hymenoptera had been shown..by feeding healthy hive-bees, mason-bees, and wasps with honey infected with Nosema spores. 1912Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. VI. 149 Bees infected with Nosema seem unable to preserve their spotless cleanliness. Ibid. 159 Wasps have been observed carrying away bees dead of Nosema and then feeding their larvae on the corpses. 1914Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. no. 92, 6 The name ‘Nosema disease’, which the writer [sc. G. F. White] suggests as the common name for this disease, is, it will be observed, only a translation of the German name used by Zander. Ibid., One is justified in at least drawing the conclusion that Nosema infection in a colony tends to weaken the colony. 1937W. Herrod-Hempsall Bee-Keeping II. xxx. 1427 Nosema Disease is caused by a microscopical animal parasite (Nosema apis) infesting the food canal of the bee. Ibid. 1429 Nosema infected bees do not, as a rule, lose the power of flight. 1955Sci. News Let. 1 Oct. 214/3 Antibiotics..will give successful control over the destructive diseases, American and European foul⁓broods, that attack larval bees, and nosema, a killer of adults. 1973Times 19 Apr. 27/5 It is against these very diseases [of bees], notably the two ‘foul brood’ types, but not forgetting acarine and nosema, that the Ministry is acting. |