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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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buffalo at Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park (HIP), South Africa, to test the hypothesis that co-infection and
Rift Valley fever in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) : basic epidemiology and the role of bovine tuberculosis coinfection

Creator:

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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friends, especially those took care of my animals while I spent 2 years in the field in South Africa