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Evaluation Of An Adaptive Sampling Approach To Characterize Microbes Associated With Pneumonia In White-Tailed Deer, Claire Nowak

Honors College

Infectious diseases have a tremendous global impact, adversely affecting the health and well-being of humans, domestic livestock, and wildlife. Consequently, pathogen surveillance in wild animals is essential for managing the risk of disease transmission to humans and domesticated animals, as well as for understanding host-pathogen interactions. However, pathogen detection methods are often focused on one to a few pathogen species, which limits our understanding of the distributions and effects of multiple co-infecting pathogens on host individuals and populations. In this study, I employed a metagenomic sequencing approach to (1) characterize the microbial community in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus …