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Expert Scientific Panel On Chronic Wasting Disease, Dr. Trent Bollinger, Dr. Peter Caley, Dr. Evelyn Merrill, Dr. Fracois Messier, Dr. Michael W. Miller, Dr. Michael D. Samuel, Dr. Emmanuel Vanopdenbosch Jul 2004

Expert Scientific Panel On Chronic Wasting Disease, Dr. Trent Bollinger, Dr. Peter Caley, Dr. Evelyn Merrill, Dr. Fracois Messier, Dr. Michael W. Miller, Dr. Michael D. Samuel, Dr. Emmanuel Vanopdenbosch

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

This document represents a summary of discussion, conclusions, and recommendations of an Expert Scientific Panel convened to: 1) provide a synopsis of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-living cervids in Canada, 2) evaluate the ecological and socio-economic implications of CWD in Canada, and 3) make recommendations on research and management actions to minimize and mitigate the effects of CWD in cervid species.

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Scwds Briefs: Volume 20, Number 2 (July 2004), Michael J. Yabsley Jul 2004

Scwds Briefs: Volume 20, Number 2 (July 2004), Michael J. Yabsley

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, confirmed vesicular stomatitis (VS) in horses at one premises in Texas. As of July 21, 2004, infected animals were identified on a total of 45 premises in Colorado (11), New Mexico (21), and Texas (13). These are the first reports of VS in livestock in the United States since the 1998 epizootic.
SCWDS VS Studies
Chronic Wasting Disease Developments: nearly 118,000 wild white-tailed deer, mule deer, and elk were tested in the United States from October 2002 to September 2003, with 592 animals testing positive for the CWD prion. More than $38,000,000 was …

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Effects Of Joint Product Management Strategies On E. Coli 0157:H7 And Feedlot Profits, Wiliam R. Perry, Thomas Marsh, Rodney Jones, M. W. Sanderson, J. M. Sargeant, Dicky D. Griffin, R. A. Smith Jul 2004

Effects Of Joint Product Management Strategies On E. Coli 0157:H7 And Feedlot Profits, Wiliam R. Perry, Thomas Marsh, Rodney Jones, M. W. Sanderson, J. M. Sargeant, Dicky D. Griffin, R. A. Smith

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 on feedlot profits. Fecal samples from 711 feedlot pens in 73 feedlots in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas were tested for E. coli 0157:H7. Average daily gain and feed-to-gain ratios were computed for each feedlot pen, and managers from each feedlot provided information on various feedlot management practices. Cattle performance and E. coli 0157:H7 prevalence are both affected by feedlot management practices. The indirect effect of E. coli 0157:H7 on potential feedlot profits was determined by measuring the effects of management practices on E. coli 0157:H7 …

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Hantavirus In Deer Mice Jun 2004

Hantavirus In Deer Mice

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses recently identified in North America as being a risk for human health. The importance of these viruses and the facts on their presence in Newfoundland are discussed.

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Exposure Time Of Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits Relative To Baiting Density And Raccoon Population Density, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W. Seamans, Randolph J. White, Zachary J. Patton, Rachel M. Bush, Jonathon D. Cepek Jun 2004

Exposure Time Of Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits Relative To Baiting Density And Raccoon Population Density, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W. Seamans, Randolph J. White, Zachary J. Patton, Rachel M. Bush, Jonathon D. Cepek

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) baiting programs for control of raccoon (Procyon lotor) rabies in the USA have been conducted or are in progress in eight states east of the Mississippi River. However, data specific to the relationship between raccoon population density and the minimum density of baits necessary to significantly elevate rabies immunity are few. We used the 22-km2 US National Aeronautics and Space Administration Plum Brook Station (PBS) in Erie County, Ohio, USA, to evaluate the period of exposure for placebo vaccine baits placed at a density of 75 baits/km2 relative to raccoon population density. …

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Nebline, June 2004 Jun 2004

Nebline, June 2004

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Better Safe Than Sorry
Safety in the Home
Controlling Bagworms
Propagation of Shrubs from Softwood Cuttings
Garden Guide: Things to do This Month
2004 Perennial Plant of the Year
Brighten Your Outdoor Area With Hanging Baskets
President’s Notes — Janet’s Jargon
Household Hints: Water Saving Measures
More Tools for Student Success
What Has Happened to Family Time?
Respect
Effect of Increasing Energy Prices on Farming Costs
Pesticide Container Recycling
“Small Scale Animal Feeding” is June Rural Living Clinic
The Nebraska LEAD Program
Wheat Plot Tour June 10
Examine Trees For Insect, Disease Problems
Septic Tanks Must Be Pumped By Certified …

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Review Of Bacterial Disease Resistance In Plants: Molecular Biology And Biotechnological Applications By P. Vidhyasekaran, Marty Dickman Jun 2004

Review Of Bacterial Disease Resistance In Plants: Molecular Biology And Biotechnological Applications By P. Vidhyasekaran, Marty Dickman

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

The molecular biology of plant-bacterial interactions is a field that continues to provide a wealth of information in the context of infectious diseases of plants. Thus, it is curious that few textbooks on this topic are available. Admittedly, active areas of research change rapidly, and book content can be rendered obsolete prior to publication. Even given this scenario, a textbook that summarizes the development (both conceptually and experimentally) of research strategies, the status of model systems, and future issues is needed. Thus, the timing and need for this broad-based volume, which covers the molecular phytobacteriology, is long overdue. An important …

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Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Project: 2004 Activities Report And Conference Proceedings Jun 2004

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Project: 2004 Activities Report And Conference Proceedings

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

On June 9 and 10, 2004, the State of Michigan and U.S. Department of Agriculture hosted the eighth annual Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) Conference, with guest speakers from Georgia, Colorado, Iowa, New York and two Canadian provinces. Our guests came together from across North America to receive policy updates and share the latest scientific data and innovative research on bovine TB.

Among other things, the speakers shared insight on: the promotion of biosecurity; the $30 million annual costs of TB eradication in New Zealand; the latest research in new and improved blood tests; and the first season results of the Michigan …

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Genome Scans Of Dna Variability In Humans Reveal Evidence For Selective Sweeps Outside Of Africa, Jay F. Storz, Bret A. Payseur, Michael W. Nachman Jun 2004

Genome Scans Of Dna Variability In Humans Reveal Evidence For Selective Sweeps Outside Of Africa, Jay F. Storz, Bret A. Payseur, Michael W. Nachman

Jay F. Storz Publications

The last 50,000–150,000 years of human history have been characterized by rapid demographic expansions and the colonization of novel environments outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Mass migrations outside the ancestral species range likely entailed many new selection pressures, suggesting that genetic adaptation to local environmental conditions may have been more prevalent in colonizing populations outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report a test of this hypothesis using genome-wide patterns of DNA polymorphism. We conducted a multilocus scan of microsatellite variability to identify regions of the human genome that may have been subject to continent-specific hitchhiking events. Using published polymorphism data for …

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Comments On The Gonotyl Of Proctocaecum Macroclemidis (Tkach And Snyder, 2003) N. Comb. (Digenea: Acanthostomidae: Acanthostominae), With A Key To The Genera Of Acanthostominae And New Phylogenetic Tree For Proctocaecum Baugh, 1957, Daniel R. Brooks Jun 2004

Comments On The Gonotyl Of Proctocaecum Macroclemidis (Tkach And Snyder, 2003) N. Comb. (Digenea: Acanthostomidae: Acanthostominae), With A Key To The Genera Of Acanthostominae And New Phylogenetic Tree For Proctocaecum Baugh, 1957, Daniel R. Brooks

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

The species recently described as Acanthostomum macroclemidis possesses the gonotyl in the form of a solid muscular pad uniquely diagnostic for species of Proctocaecum and is accordingly transferred to that genus. An artificial key to the 5 acanthostomine genera, as well as an updated phylogenetic hypothesis for the 10 known species of Proctocaecum, based on 11 characters and including 2 species described since the last phylogenetic analysis, are presented. The single most parsimonious phylogenetic tree with a consistency index of 87.5% suggests that Proctocaecum originated in Africa and spread to North America and South America before the breakup of …

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Distribution Of Kaposi Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus/Human Herpesvirus 8 In Maternal Saliva And Breast Milk In Zambia: Implications For Transmission, Brad P. Brayfield, Chipepo Kankasa, John T. West, Jubra Muyanga, Ganapati Bhat, Winslow Klaskala, Charles D. Mitchell, Charles Wood Jun 2004

Distribution Of Kaposi Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus/Human Herpesvirus 8 In Maternal Saliva And Breast Milk In Zambia: Implications For Transmission, Brad P. Brayfield, Chipepo Kankasa, John T. West, Jubra Muyanga, Ganapati Bhat, Winslow Klaskala, Charles D. Mitchell, Charles Wood

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Background. The seroprevalence of Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV)/human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in sub-Saharan Africa suggests that multiple routes of transmission exist. In the present study,we examined 2 possible routes of mother-to-child transmission, through breast milk and saliva, during the first 6 months after delivery. Methods. The prevalence of HHV-8 DNA in the breast-milk cells (n=75), milk supernatant (n=56), colostrum (n=2), and saliva cells (n=65) of HHV-8–seropositive mothers who recently gave birth was examined. Polymerase chain reaction analysis was performed for the detection of HHV-8 in cross-sectional samples isolated at 2, 4, and 6 months after delivery.

Results. None of the …

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Torquatoides Trogoni N. Sp. And Excisa Ramphastina N. Sp. (Nematoda: Habronematoidea: Habronematidae) In Birds From The Área De Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Luping Zhang, Daniel R. Brooks Jun 2004

Torquatoides Trogoni N. Sp. And Excisa Ramphastina N. Sp. (Nematoda: Habronematoidea: Habronematidae) In Birds From The Área De Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Luping Zhang, Daniel R. Brooks

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Two new species of habronematid nematodes are described in birds from the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Torquatoides trogoni n. sp., in Trogon massena, can be distinguished from T. torquata, T. bengalensis, and T. crotophaga in lacking lateral alae. Among species lacking lateral alae, the new species differs from T. balanocephala in having 14 versus 8-10 cephalic cuticular plaques, 21-22 versus 13-17 pairs of preanal papillae, and a beak-shaped versus U-shaped gubernaculum. The new species differs from T. singhi in body length, in having 21-22 versus 10 pairs of precloacal papillae, longer spicules, and larger eggs. …

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Exposure Time Of Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits Relative Tobaiting Density And Raccoon Population Density , Bradley F. Blackwell Jun 2004

Exposure Time Of Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits Relative Tobaiting Density And Raccoon Population Density , Bradley F. Blackwell

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) baiting programs for control of raccoon (Procyorl lotor) rabies in the USA have been conducted or are in progress in eight states east of the Mississippi River. However, data specific to the relationship between raccoon population density and the minimum density of baits necessary to significantly elevate rabies im~nunitya re few. We used the 22-km2 US National Aerorlautics and Space Administration Plum Brook Station (PBS) in Erie County, Ohio, USA, to evaluate the period of exposure for placebo vaccine baits placed at a density of 75 baits/km2 relative to raccoon population density. Our objectives were to …

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Multiple Signal Transducers And Activators Of Transcription Are Induced By Ebv Lmp-1, Luwen Zhang, Ke Hong, Jun Zhang, Joseph S. Pagano May 2004

Multiple Signal Transducers And Activators Of Transcription Are Induced By Ebv Lmp-1, Luwen Zhang, Ke Hong, Jun Zhang, Joseph S. Pagano

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) is required for EBV immortalization of primary B cells in vitro. Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) play a pivotal role in the initiation and maintenance of certain cancers. STAT proteins, especially STAT-1, -3, and -5, are persistently tyrosine phosphorylated or activated in many cancers. We show here that EBV-infected type III latency cells, in which the EBV oncoprotein, LMP-1 is expressed, express high levels of four STATs (STAT-1, -2, -3, and -5A) and that LMP-1 is responsible for the induction of three (STAT-1, -2, and -3). In addition, the C-terminal …

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Rabies In Newfoundland & Labrador May 2004

Rabies In Newfoundland & Labrador

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Rabies is a deadly viral disease of the brain spread by the bite of infected mammals. It is most commonly seen in red or arctic foxes in this province though other wild animals such as bats may carry the disease. Sick foxes can bite other foxes, dogs, cats, wolves, caribou, other animals and people and make them sick. Once bitten by an animal with rabies it can take from two weeks to six months before the animal shows signs of the disease. Though uncommon, this period can be as short as 4 days or as long as a year or …

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Centre Canadian Cooperatif De La Sante De La Faune, Rapport Annuel 2003-2004 (French) May 2004

Centre Canadian Cooperatif De La Sante De La Faune, Rapport Annuel 2003-2004 (French)

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

À propos du CCCSF
Nos activités
Surveillance des maladies de la faune
Surveillance des maladies de la faune - Points saillants en 2003
Centre technologique d'information du CCCSF
Services d'information
Formation
Réponse aux maladies de la faune et gestion des maladies
Publications et rapports
Rapport financier 2003-2004 - Revenus
Rapport financier 2003-2004 - Dépenses
Personnel et associés du Centre Canadian coopératif de la santé de la faune 2003-2004
Conseil d’administration du Centre Canadien coopératif de la santé de la fanue en 2003-04

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Prevalence Of Parasites In Amphipods Diporeia Spp. From Lakes Michigan And Huron, Usa, Gretchen A. Messick, Robin M. Overstreet, Thomas F. Nalepa, Sue Tyler May 2004

Prevalence Of Parasites In Amphipods Diporeia Spp. From Lakes Michigan And Huron, Usa, Gretchen A. Messick, Robin M. Overstreet, Thomas F. Nalepa, Sue Tyler

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Amphipods of Diporeia spp. have declined considerably during the last decade in the Great Lakes. We examined the possibility that disease may be affecting these populations. A histological survey assessed the parasites in species of Diporeia within Lakes Huron and Michigan, USA, and the host response to some of them and to unknown factors. Amphipods were found to have an intranuclear inclusion body, and were hosts to a rickettsia-like organism, fungi, a haplosporidian, a microsporidian, epibiotic ciliates, a gregarine, a cestode, acanthocephalans and nodule formations. Epibiotic ciliates were most common (37% prevalence of infection), but a microsporidian (3.8%), a rickettsia-like …

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West Nile Virus And Wildlife, Peter P. Marra, Sean Griffing, Carolee Caffrey, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Robert Mclean, Christopher Brand, Emi Saito, Alan P. Dupuis, Laura Kramer, Robert Novak May 2004

West Nile Virus And Wildlife, Peter P. Marra, Sean Griffing, Carolee Caffrey, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Robert Mclean, Christopher Brand, Emi Saito, Alan P. Dupuis, Laura Kramer, Robert Novak

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) has spread rapidly across North America, resulting in human deaths and in the deaths of untold numbers of birds, mammals, and reptiles. The virus has reached Central America and the Caribbean and may spread to Hawaii and South America. Although tens of thousands of birds have died, and studies of some bird species show local declines, few region-wide declines can be attributed to WNV. Predicting future impacts of WNV on wildlife, and pinpointing what drives epidemics, will require substantial additional research into host susceptibility, reservoir competency, and linkages between climate, mosquitoes, and disease. Such work will …

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Health Risk Assessment For The Introduction Of Eastern Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris) Into Nova Scotia, A.S. Neimanis, F.A. Leighton Apr 2004

Health Risk Assessment For The Introduction Of Eastern Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris) Into Nova Scotia, A.S. Neimanis, F.A. Leighton

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

This health risk assessment evaluates potential health risks associated with a proposed introduction of wild turkeys to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The preferred source for the turkeys would be the Province of Ontario, but alternative sources include the northeastern United States from Minnesota eastward and Tennessee northward. This report assesses qualitatively the probability that health hazards would be created in Nova Scotia in association with the introduction of wild turkeys and the magnitude of harm that would result, and the probability that the introduced wild turkeys would encounter health hazards in Nova Scotia and the magnitude of the …

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“French Heartworm” Infection Of Dogs & Foxes In Newfoundland Apr 2004

“French Heartworm” Infection Of Dogs & Foxes In Newfoundland

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

French Heartworm is the common name for a parasitic disease affecting foxes, dogs, and other members of the dog family. Caused by the nematode (worm) Angiostrongylus vasorum, this disease was first thought to exist in France in the mid 1800's. It is now considered to exist generally in Europe but has not been reported in North America other than on the Island of Newfoundland, with the exception of infected animals imported from Europe but diagnosed in North America. The first case recorded in Newfoundland was in Aquaforte (Avalon Peninsula) in 1973.
When and how it might have come over …

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Seroprevalence Of Bartonella Infection In American Free-Ranging And Captive Pumas (Felis Concolor) And Bobcats (Lynx Rufus), Bruno B. Chomel, Yoko Kikuchi, Janice S. Martenson, Melodie E. Roelke-Parker, Chao-Chin Chang, Rickie W. Kasten, Janet E. Foley, John Laudre, Kerry Murphy, Pamela K. Swift, Vicki L. Kramer, Stephen J. O'Brien Apr 2004

Seroprevalence Of Bartonella Infection In American Free-Ranging And Captive Pumas (Felis Concolor) And Bobcats (Lynx Rufus), Bruno B. Chomel, Yoko Kikuchi, Janice S. Martenson, Melodie E. Roelke-Parker, Chao-Chin Chang, Rickie W. Kasten, Janet E. Foley, John Laudre, Kerry Murphy, Pamela K. Swift, Vicki L. Kramer, Stephen J. O'Brien

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Bartonella henselae is the main agent of cat scratch disease in humans and domestic cats are the main reservoir of this bacterium. We conducted a serosurvey to investigate the role of American wild felids as a potential reservoir of Bartonella species. A total of 479 samples (439 serum samples and 40 Nobuto strips) collected between 1984 and 1999 from pumas (Felis concolor) and 91 samples (58 serum samples and 33 Nobuto strips) collected from bobcats (Lynx rufus) in North America, Central America and South America were screened for B. henselae antibodies. The overall prevalence of B. …

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Chronic Wasting Disease—Prion Disease In The Wild, Steve Bunk Apr 2004

Chronic Wasting Disease—Prion Disease In The Wild, Steve Bunk

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

In 1967, mule deer in a research facility near Fort Collins, Colorado, in the United States apparently began to react badly to their captivity. At least, that was the guess of researchers working on the natural history and nutrition of the deer, which became listless and showed signs of depressed mood, hanging their heads and lowering their ears. They lost appetite and weight. Then they died—of emaciation, pneumonia, and other complications—or were euthanized. The scientists dubbed it chronic wasting disease (CWD), and for years they thought it might be caused by stress, nutritional deficiencies, or poisoning. A decade later, CWD …

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Nebraska Blueprint - Spring 2004 Apr 2004

Nebraska Blueprint - Spring 2004

Nebraska Blueprint (Student Publication)

Table of Contents:

From the Editor
A Well-Earned Yet Charmed Life by Tom Cudd
Combating Tomorrow’s Diseases Today by Kevin Mlnarik
Where We're Headed by Cecelia Orwig
Not Today But Here Tomorrow by Tom Cudd
My So Called Life: 2054 by Cecelia Orwig
What It's All About by Tom Cudd
Why Don't Engineers get involved? by Tom Cudd
ASME Hosts Successful Conference

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Scwds Briefs: Volume 20, Number 1 (April 2004) Apr 2004

Scwds Briefs: Volume 20, Number 1 (April 2004)

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications


• First Culture of the STARI Agent for Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensulato, the most common tick-borne disease of humans worldwide and the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the United States.
• Unusual wild elk mortality that began in late January to early February 2004 in the Red Rim area southwest of Rawlings, Wyoming, has been preliminarily diagnosed as lichen (Xanthoparmelia chlorochroa) toxicosis.
• During 2003, hemorrhagic disease (HD) was documented in seven states through virus isolation at SCWDS. Most of our isolations were associated with an outbreak in western Idaho and adjoining eastern Washington. Both epizootic …

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Life Cycle And Paratenesis Of American Gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordiida), Ben Hanelt, John J. Janovy Jr. Apr 2004

Life Cycle And Paratenesis Of American Gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordiida), Ben Hanelt, John J. Janovy Jr.

John J. Janovy, Jr. Publications

To complete their life cycle, gordiids must make a transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments. However, epibenthic aquatic larvae and their terrestrial definitive hosts do not overlap in habitat. This has led many investigators to suggest that infections are acquired through the ingestion of insects, which become infected as aquatic larvae with gordiid cysts and subsequently carry gordiids to land. This proposed life cycle was experimentally tested using three common American species of gordiids: Gordius robustus, Paragordius varius, and Chordodes morgani. Cysts of all three species survived the metamorphosis of Tanytarsus sp., a midge. Subsequent infection trials of …

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American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 26, No. 1, Spring 2004, Scott Lyell Gardner Apr 2004

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 26, No. 1, Spring 2004, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

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“Emerging” Parasitic Infections In Arctic Ungulates, Susan J. Kutz, Eric P. Hoberg, John Nagy, Lydden Polley, Brett Elkin Apr 2004

“Emerging” Parasitic Infections In Arctic Ungulates, Susan J. Kutz, Eric P. Hoberg, John Nagy, Lydden Polley, Brett Elkin

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Important drivers for emergence of infectious disease in wildlife include changes in the environment, shrinking habitats or concentration of wildlife, and movement of people, animals, pathogens, or vectors. In this paper we present three case-studies of emerging parasitic infections and diseases in ungulates in the Canadian north. First we discuss climate warming as an important driver for the emergence of disease associated with Umingmakstrongylus pallikuukensis, a nematode lungworm of muskoxen. Then we examine how Protostrongylus stilesi, the sheep lungworm, emerged (or re-emerged) in muskoxen after re-introduction of this host into its historical range made it sympatric with Dall’s …

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Procyrnea Chabaud, 1958 (Nematoda: Habronematoidea: Habronematidae) In Birds From The Area De Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Including Descriptions Of 3 New Species, Luping Zhang, Daniel R. Brooks, Douglas Causey Apr 2004

Procyrnea Chabaud, 1958 (Nematoda: Habronematoidea: Habronematidae) In Birds From The Area De Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Including Descriptions Of 3 New Species, Luping Zhang, Daniel R. Brooks, Douglas Causey

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Four species of Procyrnea were collected in birds from the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. ,i>Procyrnea brevicaudata,/i> n. sp. in Crypturellus cinnamomeus resembles P. ficheuri, P. murrayi, P. ameerae, P. dollfusi, and P. aptera in lacking lateral alae but differs from all these species in having two longitudinal ridges on the left side of the body, in having a sinistral rather than ventral vulvar opening, and in having dorsally bent rather than straight female tails. Procyrnea mawsonae n. sp., in Buteo magnirostris, is similar to P. strialata in body size and in having …

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Parallopharynx Spp. (Trematoda: Digenea: Plagiorchioidea) In Iguanian Lizards From The Área De Conservación Guanacaste, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Including Parallopharynx Matternae N. Sp. In Basiliscus Basiliscus (Squamata: Iguania: Corytophanidae), David Zamparo, Daniel R. Brooks, Vasyl Tkach, Beatriz Rodriguez Apr 2004

Parallopharynx Spp. (Trematoda: Digenea: Plagiorchioidea) In Iguanian Lizards From The Área De Conservación Guanacaste, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Including Parallopharynx Matternae N. Sp. In Basiliscus Basiliscus (Squamata: Iguania: Corytophanidae), David Zamparo, Daniel R. Brooks, Vasyl Tkach, Beatriz Rodriguez

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

We report three species of the digenean genus Parallopharynx, one previously undescribed, from the Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. Parallopharynx gonzalezi, which was originally described in Basiliscus sp. and Ctenosaura similis from central Costa Rica, inhabits C. quinquecarinata; P. jonesi, originally described in Anolis lionotus (syn. Norops oxylophus) from Nicaragua, inhabits N. oxylophus, N. biporcatus, and Basiliscus basiliscus; and the new species, which inhabits B. basiliscus. Parallopharynx matternae n. sp. differs from all other members of the genus by having a metraterm extending posteriad from the genital …

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Tuberculosis, John B. Kaneene, Charles O. Thoen Mar 2004

Tuberculosis, John B. Kaneene, Charles O. Thoen

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Tuberculosis is a term that encompasses various diseases caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, including M tuberculosis, M bovis, M africanum, and other mycobacterial species. Whereas M tuberculosis infection is largely spread from human to human, M bovis infection has been identified as a zoonotic disease with most cases of human infection attributable to animal sources. The mycobacteria other than tuberculosis complex (MOTT), which includes M avium subsp avium and M avium subsp intracellulare isolated from animals, has been isolated from immune-compromised humans (ie, those with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection), but seldom from immunocompetent humans. Recently, …

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