Pébrine, or "pepper disease," is a disease of silkworms, which is caused by microsporidian parasites, mainly Nosema bombycis and, to a lesser extent, Vairimorpha, Pleistophora and Thelohania species. The parasites infect eggs and are therefore transmitted to the next generation.
Pébrine, or "pepper disease," is a disease of silkworms, which is caused by microsporidian parasites, mainly Nosema bombycis and, to a lesser extent, Vairimorpha, Pleistophora and Thelohania species. The parasites infect eggs and are therefore transmitted to the next generation.
The silkworm larvae infected by pébrine are usually covered in brown dots and are unable to spin silkworm thread. Antoine Béchamp was the first one to recognize the cause of this disease when a plague of the disease spread across France.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).