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Disease invasion dynamics : brucellosis and tuberculosis in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

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Gorsich, Erin E.

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Emerging infectious diseases in wild animals threaten global biodiversity as well as domestic animal and human health. Their unprecedented increase in conjunction with anthropogenically induced range shifts of endemic pathogens exposes hosts to novel parasite combinations, lending urgency to research on disease dynamics in wildlife systems. In natural populations, hosts...

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Dissertation

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, and disease dynamics. Specifically, I examined the role of two intestinal parasites, coccidia and
Hidden dynamics : community ecology and costs of parasite infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Creator:

Henrichs, Brian

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Most wild animals are concurrently infected with multiple parasite species for most of their lives. These parasite species assemble into rich and diverse communities, with parasites using host tissues for growth and reproduction as well as evolving strategies to evade the host immune system. The net effect of these ecological...

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Masters Thesis

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effect of these ecological interactions determine disease severity, transmission, host susceptibility
Rift Valley fever in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : basic epidemiology and the role of bovine tuberculosis coinfection

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Beechler, Brianna

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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic viral disease native to the African continent. Outbreaks tend to occur in the wet seasons, and can affect numerous mammalian species including African buffalo. It is debated how the virus survives the inter-epidemic period when it is not detected in mammalian populations,...

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Dissertation

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, BTB – despite the fact that buffalo act as hosts for a multitude of pathogens. Fundamental theory in