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...
Recent observations of tidewater glaciers find that the currently accepted model for predicting ice melt vastly underestimates observed melt rates. The release of pressurized air bubbles into the ocean from pores in the ice is one process that can amplify glacier melt. To incorporate this process into models, we need...
Brucellosis is a disease of veterinary and public health importance worldwide. In sub-
Saharan Africa, where this disease has been detected in several free-ranging wildlife species,
successful disease control may be dependent on accurate detection in wildlife reservoirs,
including African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). This study estimates the sensitivity and specificity...
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Brucellosis in African Buffalo
(Syncerus caffer)
Gorsich, E. E., Bengis, R. G., Ezenwa, V. O., & Jolles, A
Brucellosis is a disease of veterinary and public health importance worldwide. In sub-
Saharan Africa, where this disease has been detected in several free-ranging wildlife species,
successful disease control may be dependent on accurate detection in wildlife reservoirs,
including African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). This study estimates the sensitivity and specificity...
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Brucellosis is a disease of veterinary and public health importance worldwide. In sub- Saharan Africa, where this disease has been detected in several free-ranging wildlife species, successful disease control may be dependent on accurate detection in wildlife reservoirs, including African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). This study estimates the sensitivity and specificity...
Ice-penetrating radar produces detailed images of the internal ice layers in a glacier. Because the layers form from each year's snowfall, the curving of the internal layers is a record of the climate conditions that the glacier experienced as it flowed throughout the millennia. The Hiawatha Glacier lies on top...
The process of leaving a work organization is difficult. Leaving an organization that you are part of as a volunteer is just as difficult. In fraternities, upperclassmen members tend to move out one year before they graduate. This is a problem that can create a leadership gap in the chapter...
1. Chronic infections may have negative impacts on wildlife populations, yet their effects are difficult to detect in the absence of long-term population monitoring. Brucella abortus, the bacteria responsible for bovine brucellosis, causes chronic infections and abortions in wild and domestic ungulates, but its impact on population dynamics is not...
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predicted population-level
consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo
Gorsich, E. E., Ezenwa, V. O
1. Chronic infections may have negative impacts on wildlife populations, yet their effects are difficult to detect in the absence of long-term population monitoring. Brucella abortus, the bacteria responsible for bovine brucellosis, causes chronic infections and abortions in wild and domestic ungulates, but its impact on population dynamics is not...
Full Text:
predicted population-level
consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo
Gorsich, E. E., Ezenwa, V. O
1. Chronic infections may have negative impacts on wildlife populations, yet their effects are difficult to detect in the absence of long-term population monitoring. Brucella abortus, the bacteria responsible for bovine brucellosis, causes chronic infections and abortions in wild and domestic ungulates, but its impact on population dynamics is not...