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Filtering by: Committee Member Pett-Ridge, Julie Subject African buffalo -- Diseases -- South Africa -- Epidemiology

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

Creator:

Gorsich, Erin E.

Abstract:

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...

Resource Type:

Dissertation