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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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Seasonal prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type C in the sediments of the northern California wetland

The prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type C (% of positive sediment samples) was determined in 10 marshes at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR), located in the Central Valley of California (USA), where avian botulism epizootics occur regularly. Fifty-two percent of 2,200 sediment samples collected over an 18-mo period contained C. botulinum type C (both neurotoxic and aneurotoxic) which
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Renee J. Sandler, T.E. Rocke, M. D. Samuel, Thomas M. Yuill
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report July 1992- September 1992

No abstract available.
Authors
G. Kidd
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Duck viral enteritis in domestic muscovy ducks in Pennsylvania

Duck viral enteritis (DVE) outbreaks occurred at two different locations in Pennsylvania in 1991 and 1992. In the first outbreak, four ducks died out of a group of 30 domestic ducks; in the second outbreak, 65 ducks died out of a group of 114 domestic ducks, and 15 domestic geese died as well. A variety of species of ducks were present on both premises, but only muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) di
Authors
S. Davison, K. A. Converse, A.N. Hamir, R.J. Eckroade
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report January 1993-March 1993

No abstract available.
Authors
G. Kidd
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Diagnostic riddles

A bridled white-eye (Zosterops conspicillata) was captured in a mist net on the island of Saipan and transported to the island of Guam for an experimental study. Beginning on day three, it was immunosuppressed by intramuscular injections of dexamethasone. It was unexpectedly found dead on day 20, at which time it had lost 0.9 g (12.9% of initial body weight). Gross Pathology: Despite the weight lo
Authors
L. Sileo, E.C. Greiner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report April 1992- June1992

No abstract available.
Authors
G. Kidd
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Influence of disease on a population model of mid-continent mallards

No abstract available.
Authors
Michael D. Samuel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report July 1991- September 1991

No abstract available.
Authors
G. Kidd
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report January 1992-March 1992

No abstract available. 
Authors
G. Kidd
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report October 1991- December 1991

No abstract available.
Authors
G. Kidd
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Lead exposure and recovery rates of black ducks banded in Tennessee

American black ducks (Anas rubripes) wintering in Tennessee during 1986 to 1988 were tested for exposure to lead. Twelve percent of the birds had blood lead concentrations exceeding 0.2 ppm. Significant differences in the prevalence of lead exposure were found for adults (14.4%) and juveniles (8.2%). Exposed birds had higher blood lead concentrations at one study site, corresponding with a lower s
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Michael D. Samuel, E. Frank Bowers, J. Christian Franson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Cooperative Research Units, National Wildlife Health Center

Was disease involved in the decimation of Guam's avifauna?

Between 1982 and 1986, 402 (290 live, 112 dead) exotic, migrant or native resident birds on Guam were surveyed for disease-causing agents to determine the role of disease in the decline of native forest bird populations on Guam. Traumatic injury, primarily from collisions with motor vehicles and predation, was the most prevalent (46%) cause of death. Thirty-eight percent of the carcasses examined
Authors
Julie A. Savidge, Louis Sileo, Lynne M. Siegfried
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center