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Wildlife Health in Managed Forests : Immunity and Infectious Diseases in Wild Rodents of Oregon

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Hanselmann, Rhea

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With continual and worldwide human population growth, our impact on the natural environment expands and intensifies every day. We consume natural resources, burn fossil fuels, and release toxic compounds into the air, water, and earth. We build roads that fragment the landscape, construct new settlements, and develop agricultural lands in...

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consequences of our actions, we still lack a profound understanding of just as many of the corollaries of the
Rift Valley fever in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : basic epidemiology and the role of bovine tuberculosis coinfection

Creator:

Beechler, Brianna

Abstract:

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