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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Disease reservoirs"”.
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Blood Meal Analysis for the Detection and Identification of Host DNA in the Gut Contents of Ornithodoros coriaceus
… coriaceus ticks are the vector for the disease epizootic bovine abortion, an abortive disease of cattle that can cause significant revenue losses in the beef cattle industry, in the western United States. The transmission cycle of the etiologic agent is unknown and it has not been …
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Effects of Inbreeding on Endangered Red Wolves (Canis rufus)
… a gene group critical for immune response and disease resistance. Given broad impacts of inbreeding and MHC variation on fitness and behavior, evaluating their effects is an important component of wildlife management. My dissertation research examined how inbreeding and immunogenetic variation …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
… which the ‘truth’ about an outbreak of zoonotic disease stabilises through the labour of sampling animals. While scarcely any case of Ebola had ever been reported in West Africa, the deadliest epidemic to date started in 2013 in the southeastern region of Guinea called ‘Forest Guinea’. Since …