January 25, 2012

Wildlife Disease Journal Digest

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Conceptual and practical issues in monitoring disease in wild animal populations:a review of avian influenza programs in SK Majumdar et al., editors. Pandemic influenza viruses: science, surveillance and public health. Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton, Pennsylvania. 2011; 130-142. [free full-text pdf]
P Doherty and RG McLean

Targeted surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza in migratory waterfowl across the coterminous United States in SK Majumdar et al., editors. Pandemic influenza viruses: science, surveillance and public health. Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton, Pennsylvania. 2011; 143-155. [free full-text pdf]
ML Farnsworth et al.

Avian influenza virus in aquatic environments--an ecological perspective in SK Majumdar et al., editors. Pandemic influenza viruses: science, surveillance and public health. Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton, Pennsylvania. 2011; 59-72. [free full-text pdf]
AB Franklin et al.

Contrasting Epidemic Histories Reveal Pathogen-Mediated Balancing Selection on Class II MHC Diversity in a Wild Songbird
PLoS ONE. 2012; 7(1): e30222. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030222
DM Hawley et al.

Influenza viruses: From birds to humans

Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2012 Jan 1;8(1). [Epub ahead of print]
LA Reperant et al.

Wildlife Disease Association Newsletter - January 2012 [pdf]

The Australian Society for Parasitology Newsletter - December 2011 [pdf]
Volume 22, Issue 3
[Courtesy of the Australian Wildlife Health Network]

Official Publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - ISID NEWS - December 2011 [pdf]
Volume 11, Number 06

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Volume 97, Number 3




European Section of the Wildlife Disease Association Bulletin - EWDA E-zine - December 2011
Volume 2, Number 8

State-Level Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in the United States
Zoonoses Public Health. 2011 Dec;58(8):523-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01401.x. Epub 2011 Apr 1.
M Scotch et al.

Assessing environmental contamination around obsolete pesticide stockpiles in West Africa: Using the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) as a sentinel species
Ecotoxicology & Pollution Science. 2011 Dec 14; 31(2): 387-394
A Ciliberti et al.

Patterns of acoustical activity of bats prior to and following white-nose syndrome occurrence [free full-text pdf]
Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 2011; 2(2):125-134.
WM Ford et al.

Reassortment and Mutation of the Avian Influenza Virus Polymerase PA Subunit Overcome Species Barriers
J Virol. 2012 Feb;86(3):1750-7. Epub 2011 Nov 16. doi: 10.1128/​JVI.06203-11
A Mehlea et al.

Mathematical Modeling of Viral Zoonoses in Wildlife
Natural Resource Modeling. 2012 Feb; 25(1): 5-51
LJS Allen et al.

Occurrence of blood-borne tick-transmitted parasites in common tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) antelope in Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Vet Parasitol. 2011 Dec 29;183(1-2):160-5. Epub 2011 Jun 25.
PS Brothers et al.

Open-Access in the Wildlife Health Discipline [pdf]
Reading Assignment from Wildlife Disease Association Website
DO Joly and RA Cook

Simulating devil facial tumour disease outbreaks across empirically derived contact networks
Journal of Applied Ecology. 2012;[Epub ahead of print]
R Hamede et al.

A Look Back

The impact of disease on wildlife populations
BioScience. 1969; 19(4):321-326
CM Herman