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Feral Swine---Are They A Disease Threat To Livestock In The United States?, Gary W. Witmer, Robert B. Sanders, Arnold C. Taft Apr 2003

Feral Swine---Are They A Disease Threat To Livestock In The United States?, Gary W. Witmer, Robert B. Sanders, Arnold C. Taft

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Feral swine populations provide both benefits and liabilities to citizens of the United States. Their expanding range and increasing densities, however, have raised concern over the adverse environmental and agricultural effects and the increased risk of disease transmission between feral swine and livestock. We discuss the role of feral swine in the transmission of wildlife diseases and, in particular, in diseases of national significance to the livestock industry. We also discuss available management tools and strategies for reducing feral swine populations, minimizing damage or disease occurrences and eradicating populations when deemed appropriate. Finally, we note areas of research that may …

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The Emergence Of Major Avian Diseases In North America: West Nile Virus And More, Robert G. Mclean Apr 2003

The Emergence Of Major Avian Diseases In North America: West Nile Virus And More, Robert G. Mclean

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Some major diseases of wild birds have emerged dramatically in North America recently due in part to the rapid global movement of animals and pathogens and major changes in the size, quality, and continuity of natural habitats. These diseases include invasive pathogens, emergence of new disease agents or syndromes, and reemergence of some established diseases. A prominent example is West Nile virus that invaded North America, became easily established, and has expanded throughout the continent within 4 years. A number of factors have influenced the frequency of occurrence, the variety of species affected, and the geographical extent of these emergent …

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A Review Of Pathogens Of Agricultural And Human Health Interest Found In Canada Geese, Larry Clark Apr 2003

A Review Of Pathogens Of Agricultural And Human Health Interest Found In Canada Geese, Larry Clark

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The roles that waterfowl in general, and Canada geese in particular, have in the dissemination and transmission of viral and bacterial diseases of human or agricultural importance are covered in this review. In addition to the biological information about the etiology of the disease, economic impacts and zoonotic potential of viral and bacterial pathogens are considered. In most cases existing evidence suggests the importance of waterfowl in disease dissemination and transmission, however, definitive data are often lacking, indicating the need for more directed studies before quantitative risk assessments can be made. Finally, a brief assessment of management options is considered.

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Volume 40, Number 30: April 4, 2003, University Of North Dakota Apr 2003

Volume 40, Number 30: April 4, 2003, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Com Outlook Spring 2003, College Of Osteopathic Medicine Apr 2003

Com Outlook Spring 2003, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

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Human Resources In China: The Birth Quota, Returns To Schooling, And Migration, T. Paul Schultz Apr 2003

Human Resources In China: The Birth Quota, Returns To Schooling, And Migration, T. Paul Schultz

Discussion Papers

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Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network Apr 2003

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

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Hepp Report: Infectious Diseases In Corrections, Vol. 6 No. 4, Hiv & Hepatitis Education Prison Project Apr 2003

Hepp Report: Infectious Diseases In Corrections, Vol. 6 No. 4, Hiv & Hepatitis Education Prison Project

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

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The Statesman, V. 46, I. 46, State University Of New York At Stony Brook Apr 2003

The Statesman, V. 46, I. 46, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 46, i. 46

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Human Capital, Schooling And Health Returns, T. Paul Schultz Apr 2003

Human Capital, Schooling And Health Returns, T. Paul Schultz

Discussion Papers

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American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 25, No. 1, Early Spring 2003, Scott Lyell Gardner Apr 2003

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 25, No. 1, Early Spring 2003, 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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Toward A National Biodefense Strategy: Challenges And Opportunities, Center For Counterproliferation Research Apr 2003

Toward A National Biodefense Strategy: Challenges And Opportunities, Center For Counterproliferation Research

Books and Book Chapters

The United States is re-learning an important lesson in the first decade of the 21st century: adversaries may attack the United States, its interests, or those of friends and allies with biological weapons (BW). The last century witnessed the purported use of glanders by the Germans in World War I and the use of dysentery, plague, and typhus by the Japanese in World War II. But biological weapons were not constrained to wartime settings in the last century. The Rajneeshees, a religious cult in Oregon, employed salmonella to advance their own political agenda. States such as Iraq and the former …

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Alumni, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 2003

Alumni, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Women trade professional perspectives; Scholarship donor: 'I wanted to give something back'; Sam Silver, '89, and team win death row case; Awards; Alumni Directory; Class notes; In memoriam

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Phyllodistomum Funduli N. Sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) From Fundulus Sciadicus Cope From Cedar Creek In Western Nebraska, Jaclyn Helt, John J. Janvoy Jr., John Ubelaker Apr 2003

Phyllodistomum Funduli N. Sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) From Fundulus Sciadicus Cope From Cedar Creek In Western Nebraska, Jaclyn Helt, John J. Janvoy Jr., John Ubelaker

John J. Janovy, Jr. Publications

Phyllodistomum funduli n. sp. is described from the urinary bladder and ureters of the Plains topminnow, Fundulus sciadicus, from Cedar Creek in Keith County, Nebraska (41°11.18'N, 101°21.77'W). Phyllodistomum funduli differs from most other Phyllodistomum species reported in possessing an oral sucker that is larger than the acetabulum. Currently, 7 other species of Phyllodistomum have been reported to possess this trait. A comparison of P. funduli with these 7 other species indicates that P. funduli is a distinct species, lacking notches, posterior body folds, caudal projections, or cephalic glands found in some congeners. There is no published report on parasites …

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Triage In The Nation's Medicine Cabinet: The Puzzling Scarcity Of Vaccines And Other Drugs, Lars Noah Apr 2003

Triage In The Nation's Medicine Cabinet: The Puzzling Scarcity Of Vaccines And Other Drugs, Lars Noah

South Carolina Law Review

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Morbidity Spectrum In The Veterans, Muhammad Imran Omar, Saba Sohail Apr 2003

Morbidity Spectrum In The Veterans, Muhammad Imran Omar, Saba Sohail

Department of Radiology

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Breast Still Best: An Argument In Favor Of One Hiv Positive Mother's Right To Breastfeed, Monique Anikwue Apr 2003

Breast Still Best: An Argument In Favor Of One Hiv Positive Mother's Right To Breastfeed, Monique Anikwue

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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From The Amazon To The Alps: A Comparison Of The Pharmaceutical Biodiversity Legal Protection In Brazil And Switzerland, Albena P. Petrova Apr 2003

From The Amazon To The Alps: A Comparison Of The Pharmaceutical Biodiversity Legal Protection In Brazil And Switzerland, Albena P. Petrova

Pace International Law Review

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Academics And Bioterrorists: New Thinking About The New Terror, Richard Danzig Apr 2003

Academics And Bioterrorists: New Thinking About The New Terror, Richard Danzig

Cardozo Law Review

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The Law And Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: The Case For Precautionary Measures, Susanne Aberbach-Marolda Apr 2003

The Law And Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: The Case For Precautionary Measures, Susanne Aberbach-Marolda

Pace International Law Review

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Febrile Neutropenia. Etiology Of Infection, Empirical Treatment And Prophylaxis, Ahmed T. Eltahawy Apr 2003

Febrile Neutropenia. Etiology Of Infection, Empirical Treatment And Prophylaxis, Ahmed T. Eltahawy

Saudi Medical Journal

Much has changed in the treatment of patients with fever and neutropenia, including the patterns of microbial flora and drug resistance, and the drugs used. Gram-positive organisms have overshadowed the gram-negative ones as causes of bacteremia. Changes in therapy may include antimicrobials directed against gram-positive bacteria, resistant gram-negative bacteria, or fungi. Due to the high risk for colonization by vancomycin resistant Enterococci, vancomycin use is restricted as first line empiric therapy unless the patient is at high-risk for serious gram-positive infection. Prophylactic antibiotic therapy may increase the selection of resistant strains and should be avoided. Therapy with colony stimulating factor …

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Trend Of Antibiotic Resistance In 1316 Shigella Strains Isolated In Bahrain, Affaf E. Jamsheer Apr 2003

Trend Of Antibiotic Resistance In 1316 Shigella Strains Isolated In Bahrain, Affaf E. Jamsheer

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Nematode Fauna Of Long-Nosed Mice Oxymycterus Spp. From The Bolivian Yungas, F. Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Scott Lyell Gardner Apr 2003

The Nematode Fauna Of Long-Nosed Mice Oxymycterus Spp. From The Bolivian Yungas, F. Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Scott Lyell Gardner

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

During a long-term survey of the parasites of mammals from all over Bolivia, 44 individuals of Oxymycterus inca and 6 of Oxymycterus paramensis were collected and examined for parasites from the foothills and Eastern Cordillera (Los Yungas) of the Andes of Bolivia. Three species of nematode were found including, from the cecum, a previously unknown genus and species of pinworm, Caroloxyuris boliviensis n. gen, n. sp., aspidoderids representing Nematomystes rodentophilus, and from the stomach, Protospirura numidica criceticola. These helminths occurred in prevalences of 25, 9, and 14%, respectively, in O. paramensis. Caroloxyuris boliviensis resembles species included in …

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Survey For Coccidia And Haemosporidia In The Lesser Prairie Chicken (Typanuchus Pallidicinctus) From New Mexico With The Description Of A New Eimeria Species, B. H. Smith, Donald Duszynski, K. Johnson Apr 2003

Survey For Coccidia And Haemosporidia In The Lesser Prairie Chicken (Typanuchus Pallidicinctus) From New Mexico With The Description Of A New Eimeria Species, B. H. Smith, Donald Duszynski, K. Johnson

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Blood films and fecal samples of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) were examined for parasites when we surveyed specimens captured during a radio-tracking study conducted in Chaves County, New Mexico (USA). All birds were captured on the Caprock Wildlife Habitat Management Area, administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Samples were collected in late March, April, and early May 1998-2000. Oocysts were detected in five of 64 (8%) birds sampled and, upon sporulation, were determined to be an Eimeria species. This is the first eimerian reported from the lesser prairie-chicken and is described here as a new species. …

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Health Education: An Eclectic Profession, Beverly S. Mahoney Apr 2003

Health Education: An Eclectic Profession, Beverly S. Mahoney

Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2001, the Coalition ofNa1ional Health Education Organizations (CNHEO) published an assessment/planning document for the health education profession entitled The Health Education Profession in the Twenty-First Century. This document was generated by representatives from the ten national organizations whose , focus is health education.

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The Ambiguity Of Gatt Article Xxi: Subtle Success Or Rampant Failure, Peter Lindsay Apr 2003

The Ambiguity Of Gatt Article Xxi: Subtle Success Or Rampant Failure, Peter Lindsay

Duke Law Journal

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Class I Integrons And Sxt Elements In El Tor Strains Isolated Before And After 1992 Vibrio Cholerae O139 Outbreak, Calcutta, India, Amita Kaundal, S. Roy Chowdhury, M. Thungapathra, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, Amit Gosh Apr 2003

Class I Integrons And Sxt Elements In El Tor Strains Isolated Before And After 1992 Vibrio Cholerae O139 Outbreak, Calcutta, India, Amita Kaundal, S. Roy Chowdhury, M. Thungapathra, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, Amit Gosh

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

We examined the distribution of class I integrons and SXT elements in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains, isolated in Calcutta, India, before and after the V. cholerae O139 outbreak in 1992. Class I integrons, with aadA1 gene cassette, were detected primarily in the pre-O139 strains; the SXT element was found mainly in the post-O139 strains.

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The Ecological Ramifications Of Disease And Density In The Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Argus, Donald C. Behringer Jr. Apr 2003

The Ecological Ramifications Of Disease And Density In The Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Argus, Donald C. Behringer Jr.

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

In 1999, I discovered the first virus known to be pathogenic to any species of lobster. HLV-PA is a pathogenic herpes-like virus that infects juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, in the waters off south Florida (USA), and it alters the behavior and ecology of this species in fundamental ways. Gross signs of HLV-PA infection are lethargy, morbidity, cessation of molting, and discolored, “milky” hemolymph that does not clot. HLV-PA infects the hemocytes of host lobsters, specifically the hyalinocytes and semi-granulocytes, but not the granulocytes. When hemolymph from infected donors was injected into healthy juvenile lobsters, 90% of the …

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Application Of The Traditional Epidemiological Model To Predict Occupational Injury Rates In Manufacturing Industries, Gary A. Morris Apr 2003

Application Of The Traditional Epidemiological Model To Predict Occupational Injury Rates In Manufacturing Industries, Gary A. Morris

Health Services Research Dissertations

This study was designed to test the usefulness of the Traditional Epidemiological Model of disease causation in modeling occupational injury rates and the presence of occupational illness in the manufacturing industry. More specifically, this research involved use of the agent, host, and environment constructs of the Traditional Epidemiological Model to examine the effects of five environmental-related workplace health and safety practices on occupational injury and illness. Data from the National Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES), conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1981–1983, were used to ascertain the presence of specific workplace characteristics and to calculate …

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Characterization Of Mouse Prostate Tumor-Infiltrating Leukocytes, Daniel Alan Holterman Apr 2003

Characterization Of Mouse Prostate Tumor-Infiltrating Leukocytes, Daniel Alan Holterman

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Prostate cancer is the most common form of non-cutaneous cancer among men in the United States and the second most common cause of cancer-related death among men with approximately 189,000 new cases diagnosed and 30,200 deaths of the disease in 2002. Prostate cancer can be a treatable disease but once it becomes metastatic there are no acceptable therapies. For this reason, immunotherapy has been attempted but the results have been disappointing. The TRAMP model was used to evaluate specific interactions between an intact murine immune system and a prostate tumor that expressed a naturally processed weak tumor antigen. Vaccination trials …

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