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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mycobacterium mungi"”.
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Bidirectional interactions between behavior and disease in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) infected with Mycobacterium mungi
… (TB) caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium mungi in the M. tuberculosis complex (Alexander et al. 2010). Banded mongooses are highly social carnivores that live in troops of 5 to 65 individuals. Mycobacterium mungi appears to be primarily environmentally transmitted, but direct …
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Developing Transcriptional Markers for Detecting Infection with the Novel Tuberculosis Pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, in Free-Ranging Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
… are especially persistent for pathogens of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC), which cause tuberculosis (TB) disease in a wide array of mammalian hosts. These challenges are further exacerbated when working with MTBC pathogens in free-ranging wildlife hosts. Although TB disease in …
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The Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Behavior in Northern Botswana: Inferences about Infectious Disease Transmission
… (Mungos mungo), a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, has emerged in Northern Botswana that is transmitted through olfactory communication behaviors. Using this host-pathogen system, this thesis explores the influence of various land use areas along the human-wildlife interface on …
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Data-Driven Modeling For Social-Ecological Resilience within a One Health Framework
… in northern Botswana affected by the fatal Mycobacterium mungi pathogen to simulate population and disease dynamics. Model simulations reveal that certain social-ecological factors such as Allee Effects and group fusions, provide buffers to extinction events and offset disease effects. The …
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Understanding the Influence of Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Social Structuring on Disease Transmission Using Molecular Tools
… is faced with a novel strain of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium mungi. To infer genetic structure and individual movements between troops, I utilized microsatellite genetic markers and population genetic analyses. I found moderately strong genetic structuring (FST = 0.086) among 12 troops of banded …
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The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications
… in northeastern Botswana are infected by a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, M. mungi, which putatively infects mongooses through lesions in the skin (often the planum nasale) from an environmental reservoir. To understand the epidemiology of the yearly and highly seasonal …