Nosema in Other Animals
Members of the genus Nosema also afflict other species of insects. For example: Nosema vespula (European wasps), Nosema oulemae (cereal leaf beetle), Nosema trichoplusiae (moth Trichoplusia ni), Nosema furnacalis (Ostrinia furnacalis), Nosema necatrix (cutworm moth Mythimna unipuncta), Nosema locustae (grasshoppers) and Nosema pyrrhocoridis (Firebug).
The mark craze (Pébrine disease), caused by Nosema bombycis is one of the most important parasitic diseases of the silk moth.
Other pathogens similar to Nosema cause diseases in mammals. In veterinary practice the term "Nosema" is sometimes used to refer to Encephalitozoonosis, a disease common in rabbits, in which the brain is infected with the intracellular parasitic microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi. The term arises from the fact that encephalitozoon were formerly classified as members of the genus Nosema.
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