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Wildlife Health Bulletins

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Wildlife Health Bulletins are distributed to natural resource/conservation agencies to provide and promote information exchange about significant wildlife health threats.

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Wildlife Disease Case Definitions

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Case definitions provide a standardized, science-based set of criteria for diagnosing disease and pathogens. This manual provides case definitions for selected diseases of importance to wildlife in Canada and the United States.

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Mortality investigation Mortality investigation

Wildlife mortality events usually occur unannounced and may find management agencies unaware. These events can become highly visible and politically charged affairs, depending upon the scale or species involved. The public, media, and (or) politicians may pressure managers, field investigators, and diagnosticians to quickly identify the cause or to comment on potential causes, the...
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Thierry M. Work
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases

Welcome to a new version of the “Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases.” Unlike the previous printed versions of this publication, this new version is being developed as a “living“ electronic publication. Content will periodically be added and (or) updated as warranted, and it will always be reviewed by scientific experts (“peer reviewed”) before it is released. Thus, this publication will...
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly mortality report USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly mortality report

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Anne E. Ballmann, C. LeAnn White, Barbara L. Bodenstein, Jennifer L. Buckner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Attenuation of monkeypox virus by deletion of genomic regions Attenuation of monkeypox virus by deletion of genomic regions

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is an emerging pathogen from Africa that causes disease similar to smallpox. Two clades with different geographic distributions and virulence have been described. Here, we utilized bioinformatic tools to identify genomic regions in MPXV containing multiple virulence genes and explored their roles in pathogenicity; two selected regions were then deleted singularly...
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Juan G. Lopera, Elizabeth A. Falendysz, Tonie E. Rocke, Jorge E. Osorio
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Avian cholera causes marine bird mortality in the Bering Sea of Alaska Avian cholera causes marine bird mortality in the Bering Sea of Alaska

The first known avian cholera outbreak among wild birds in Alaska occurred during November 2013. Liver, intestinal, and splenic necrosis consistent with avian cholera was noted, and Pasteurella multocida serotype 1 was isolated from liver and lung or spleen in Crested Auklets (Aethia cristatella), Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia), Common Eider (Somateria mollissima), Northern Fulmars...
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Barbara L. Bodenstein, Kimberlee B. Beckmen, Gay Sheffield, Kathy Kuletz, Caroline R. Van Hemert, Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier, Valerie I. Shearn-Bochsler
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Biocontainment practices for coral disease research Biocontainment practices for coral disease research

No abstract available.
Authors
D. Palic, J. V. Warg, Thierry M. Work
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Dark-spots disease Dark-spots disease

No abstract available.
Authors
Thierry M. Work, E. Weil
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Skeletal growth anomalies in corals Skeletal growth anomalies in corals

No abstract available.
Authors
Thierry M. Work, L.T. Kaczmarsky, E. C. Peters
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Health condition of juvenile Chelonia mydas related to fibropapillomatosis in southeast Brazil Health condition of juvenile Chelonia mydas related to fibropapillomatosis in southeast Brazil

Packed cell volume (PCV), plasma biochemistry, visual body condition (BC), and calculated body condition index (BCI) were evaluated in 170 wild juvenile green sea turtles Chelonia mydas from an aggregation in the effluent canal of a steel mill in Brazil. Occurrence of cutaneous fibropapillomatosis (FP) was observed in 44.1% of the animals examined. BCI alone did not differ significantly...
Authors
Marcello Renan de Deus Santos, Agnaldo Silva Martins, Cecilia Baptistotte, Thierry M. Work
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Clostridium botulinum Clostridium botulinum

No abstract available.
Authors
Tonie E. Rocke, Rachel C. Abbott
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Experimental infection of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) with sheep scrapie Experimental infection of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) with sheep scrapie

Meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) are permissive to chronic wasting disease (CWD) infection, but their susceptibility to other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is poorly characterized. In this initial study, we intracerebrally challenged 6 meadow voles with 2 isolates of sheep scrapie. Three meadow voles acquired a TSE after the scrapie challenge and an extended...
Authors
CM Carlson, Jay R. Schneider, Janice C. Pedersen, Dennis M. Heisey, Christopher J. Johnson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Why bother about wildlife disease? Why bother about wildlife disease?

In most developed countries, the maintenance of the numbers of wildlife1 is vested in the natural resource agencies of those countries. During earlier times, game species were the primary focus of natural resource agencies2,3 however, current wildlife conservation continues to transition towards a more holistic focus on biodiversity4 and environmental health5,6. Nevertheless, that...
Authors
Milton Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center
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