June 15, 2011

Wildlife Disease Journal Digest




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Are Wild Birds Important in the Transport of Arthropod-borne Viruses? [Son las Aves Silvestres Importantes para el Transporte de Virus Transmitidos por Artrópodos]
Ornithological Monographs. 2011 Jul 15; 71(1): 1-64
CR Brown and VA O'Brien

The Wildlife Society - Wildlife Policy News - June 2011

Volume 21, Issue 6

One Health Newsletter - Spring 2011
Volume 4, Issue 2

How to make predictions about future infectious disease risks
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Jul 12;366(1573):2045-54.
M Woolhouse

A survey for the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in New Zealand's endemic Hochstetter's frog (Leiopelma hochstetteri)
New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 2011 Jun; 38(2): 181 - 184
V Moreno et al.

Reassortant low-pathogenic avian influenza H5N2 viruses in African wild birds
Journal of General Virology. 2011 May; 92(5): 1172-1183
CJ Snoeck et al.

Uncertainties in the governance of animal disease: an interdisciplinary
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B; Jul 2011 12; 366:2023-2034
R Fish et al.

Identifying crucial gaps in our knowledge of the life-history of avian influenza viruses – an Australian perspective

Emu. 2011; 111: 103–112. doi:10.1071/MU10042
M Klaassen et al.


Development and Validation of a Concentration Method for the Detection of Influenza A Viruses from Large Volumes of Surface Water
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2011 Jun; 77(11): 3802-3808. doi:10.1128/AEM.02484-10
N Deboosere et al.

Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Salivary, Urinary, and Intestinal Tissues of Deer: Potential Mechanisms of Prion Shedding and Transmission
The Journal of Virology. 2011 Jul; 85(13): 6309-6318. doi:10.1128/JVI.00425-11
NJ Haley et al.




High seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in the Common raven (Corvus corax) in the Northeast of Spain
Res Vet Sci. 2011 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print]
R Molina-López

Liver Lead Concentrations in Raptors in New Jersey, USA, 2008-2010
Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2011 Jun 7. [Epub ahead of print]
W Stansley and LA Murphy

Community interactions govern host-switching with implications for host–parasite coevolutionary history
PNAS. 2011 Jun 07; 108(23):9525-9529. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1102129108
CW Harbison and DH Clayton


Top Stories - News Briefs


Specialists have not found traces of radiation in birds, over wintered in Japan [Interfax - www.interfax.ru/news, 14 Jun 2011] [Translation Disclaimer]

Chinese white dolphin carcasses found in the Nansha sea area [Shenzhen Special Zone Daily - scitech.people.com.cn, 14 June 2011; Location: Huangge Tigers, China - Map It ] [Translation Disclaimer]

Gull colony has been knocked out - a big loss for the island [Helagotland - produktportal.smhi.se, 14 Jun 2011, H Osterberg; Location Faro, Sweden] [Translation Disclaimer]

Deadly Amphibian Disease Found in the Last Disease-Free Region of Central America
[Science Daily, 13 Jun 2011; Location: Panama - Map It ] [cited journal article]

Dengue Virus Circulating Between Monkeys and Mosquitoes Could Emerge to Cause Human Outbreaks [Daily Science - www.sciencedaily.com, 13 Jun 2011] [cited journal article]

ProMED: Duck viral enteritis - UK: (England) swans, ducks [Reader commentary][ProMED Mail - www.promedmail.org, 13 Jun 2011]