August 11, 2010

Wildlife Disease Journal Digest



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Potential spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 by wildfowl: dispersal ranges and rates determined from large-scale satellite telemetry
Journal of Applied Ecology. 2010; [Epub ahead of print]
N Gaidet et al.

Body condition and mercury concentration in apparently healthy goosander (Mergus merganser) wintering in the Odra estuary, Poland
Ecotoxicology. 2010 Aug 3. [Epub ahead of print]
E KalisiƄska et al.

Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama
PNAS. 2010; [Epub ahead of print]
AJ Crawford et al.

The effect of rabbit population control programmes on the impact of rabbit haemorrhagic disease in south-eastern Australia
Journal of Applied Ecology. 2010; [Epub ahead of print]
G Mutze et al.

The Cold European Winter of 2005-2006 Assisted the Spread and Persistence of H5N1 Influenza Virus in Wild Birds
Ecohealth. 2010 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print]
D Ottaviani et al.

Stress response of brown pelican nestlings to ectoparasite infestation
Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2010 Mar 1;166(1):33-8. Epub 2009 Aug 28.
LM Eggert et al.

Angiostrongylus species in wild carnivores in the Iberian Peninsula
Veterinary Parasitology. 2010; [Epub ahead of print]
X.Gerrikagoitia et al.

Tropics, trophics and taxonomy: the determinants of parasite-associated host mortality
OIKOS. 2010 Aug; 119(8):1273–1280
N Robar et al.


Journal of Wildlife Diseases - July 2010
Volume 46, Number 3

Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report
January 2010 to March 2010
USGS National Wildlife Health Center

White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) in Bats, Europe
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Aug;16(8):1237-1243.
G Wibbelt et al.

A Hard Look at Blood Sampling of Birds
The Auk. 2010. 127(3):704-708
M Voss et al.

Ecological determinants of American crow mortality due to West Nile virus during its North American sweep

Oecologia. 2010 Aug;163(4):903-9. Epub 2010 Apr 28.
WD Koenig et al.

Continued Evolution of H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds, Domestic Poultry, and Humans in China from 2004 to 2009
J Virol. 2010 Sep;84(17):8389-97. Epub 2010 Jun 10
Y Li et al.

PETITION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO BAN LEAD SHOT, BULLETS, AND FISHING SINKERS UNDER THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT [pdf]
20 Aug 2010, 100 pages
Center for Biological Diversity

Helminths of the American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802), from Pawnee Lake, Lancaster, Nebraska, USA with a checklist of its helminth parasites [pdf]
Zootaxa. 2010. 2544: 1–53
R Mata-Lopez et al.

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