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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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Raptor mortality due to West Nile virus in the United States, 2002 Raptor mortality due to West Nile virus in the United States, 2002

West Nile virus (WNV) has affected many thousands of birds since it was first detected in North America in 1999, but the overall impact on wild bird populations is unknown. In mid-August 2002, wildlife rehabilitators and local wildlife officials from multiple states began reporting increasing numbers of sick and dying raptors, mostly red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and great horned...
Authors
E. K. Saito, L. Sileo, D. E. Green, C.U. Meteyer, G.S. McLaughlin, K. A. Converse, D. E. Docherty
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Twenty-four years of Great Lakes lichen studies provide park biomonitoring baselines Twenty-four years of Great Lakes lichen studies provide park biomonitoring baselines

No abstract available.
Authors
J. P. Bennett
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report

No abstract available.
Authors
K. A. Converse, Krysten Schuler, G. McLaughlin, Mark Jankowski, Jennifer Bradsby
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report (United States) USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report (United States)

No abstract available.
Authors
M. Jankowski, K. Schuler, Rachel Guy
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report (North America) USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report (North America)

No abstract available.
Authors
M. Jankowski, K. Schuler, J. Bradsby
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds

No abstract available.
Authors
N. J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, C. T. Atkinson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, National Wildlife Health Center

Duck plague (Duck virus enteritis) Duck plague (Duck virus enteritis)

This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Synonyms History and Distribution Host Range Etiology Epizootiology Clinical Signs Pathogenesis Pathology Diagnosis Immunity Public Health Concerns Domestic Animal Health Concerns Wildlife Population Impacts Treatment and Control Management Implications Unpublished Data/Personal Communications Literature Cited
Authors
Wallace R. Hansen, R. E. Gough
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Chronic Wasting Disease Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an always-fatal, neurological illness occurring in North American cervids (members of the deer family), including white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. Since its discovery in 1967, CWD has spread geographically and increased in prevalence locally. CWD is contagious; it can be transmitted freely within and among free-ranging populations. It is...
Authors
Bryan Richards
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

A review of methods to estimate cause-specific mortality in presence of competing risks A review of methods to estimate cause-specific mortality in presence of competing risks

Estimating cause-specific mortality is often of central importance for understanding the dynamics of wildlife populations. Despite such importance, methodology for estimating and analyzing cause-specific mortality has received little attention in wildlife ecology during the past 20 years. The issue of analyzing cause-specific, mutually exclusive events in time is not unique to wildlife...
Authors
Dennis M. Heisey, Brent R. Patterson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Tularemia Tularemia

No abstract available.
Authors
Milton Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Autoinducer 2: a concentration-dependent signal for mutualistic bacterial biofilm growth Autoinducer 2: a concentration-dependent signal for mutualistic bacterial biofilm growth

4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (DPD), a product of the LuxS enzyme in the catabolism of S-ribosylhomocysteine, spontaneously cyclizes to form autoinducer 2 (AI-2). AI-2 is proposed to be a universal signal molecule mediating interspecies communication among bacteria. We show that mutualistic and abundant biofilm growth in flowing saliva of two human oral commensal bacteria, Actinomyces...
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A.H. Rickard, R.J. Palmer, David S. Blehert, S.R. Campagna, M.F. Semmelhack, P.G. Egland, B.L. Bassler, P.E. Kolenbrander
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Chronic wasting disease infection patterns in female white-tailed deer related to demographics, genetic relationships, and spatial proximity of infected deer in southern Wisconsin Chronic wasting disease infection patterns in female white-tailed deer related to demographics, genetic relationships, and spatial proximity of infected deer in southern Wisconsin

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) caused by transmissible protease resistant prions. Since the discovery of CWD in southern Wisconsin in 2001, more than 20,000 deer have been removed from a >2,500 km2 disease eradication zone surrounding the three initial cases. Nearly all deer removed were tested for CWD infection and sex, age...
Authors
Daniel A. Grear
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center
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