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Do Shade-Grown Coffee Plantations Pose a Disease Risk for Wild Birds?
EcoHealth. 2013 May; [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1007/s10393-013-0837-3
SM Hernandez et al.

Chytridiomycosis and Seasonal Mortality of Tropical Stream-Associated Frogs 15 Years after Introduction of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Conserv Biol. 2013 May 16. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12073. [Epub ahead of print]
AD Phillott et al.

Hepatitis and splenitis due to systemic tetratrichomoniasis in an American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
J Vet Diagn Invest. 2013 May 14. [Epub ahead of print]
RE Burns et al.

Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change
Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2013; 110(21):8399–8404 [Epub ahead of print 2013 May 13]. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208059110
BA Jones

A hierarchical distance sampling approach to estimating mortality rates from opportunistic carcass surveillance data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2013 Apr; 4(4):361–369 [Epub ahead of print 2013 Jan 10]. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.12021
SE Bellan et al.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of pneumonia in bighorn sheep
J Anim Ecol. 2013 Feb 8. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12031. [Epub ahead of print]
EF Cassirer et al.

A cluster of avian malaria cases in a kiwi management programme
N Z Vet J. 2013 May;61(3):121-6. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2012.736130. Epub 2012 Nov 28
ME Banda et al.

Electrolyte depletion in white-nose syndrome bats
J Wildl Dis. 2013 Apr;49(2):398-402. doi: 10.7589/2012-04-121.
PM Cryan et al.

Efficacy of antemortem rectal biopsies to diagnose and estimate prevalence of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cow elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni)
J Wildl Dis. 2013 Apr;49(2):270-8. doi: 10.7589/2011-12-362.
RJ Monello et al.

Predicting shifts in parasite distribution with climate change: A multi-trophic level approach
Glob Chang Biol. 2013 May 13. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12255. [Epub ahead of print]
RS Pickles et al.

Correlates between Feeding Ecology and Mercury Levels in Historical and Modern Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)
PLoS One. 2013 May 6;8(5):e60879. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060879. Print 2013.
N Bocharova et al.

First report of Trichinella pseudospiralis in Poland, in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
Acta Parasitol. 2013 Jun;58(2):149-54. doi: 10.2478/s11686-013-0121-2. Epub 2013 May 11.
B Moskwa et al.

Distribution of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Viral Protein and Nucleic Acid Within Central Nervous Tissue Lesions in White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Veterinary Pathology. 2013 [Epub ahead of print 2013 May 17]. doi: 10.1177/0300985813488956
M. Kiupel et al.

Francisella tularensis infection in a stone marten (Martes foina) without classic pathological lesions consistent with tularemia
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 2013; [Epub ahead of print 2013 May 14]. doi: 10.1177/1040638713489124
FC Origgi et al.

Leptospira interrogans at the Human-Wildlife Interface in Northern Botswana: A Newly Identified Public Health Threat
Zoonoses Public Health. 2013 May 14. doi: 10.1111/zph.12052. [Epub ahead of print]
SE Jobbins et al.

Essential Readings in Wildlife Management and Conservation [Table of Contents]
Includes the chapter: Mortality patterns in mammals

Proceedings of the seminar on Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 9, 2011: current trends and proposals [no online abstract available]
Med Mal Infect. 2012 Nov;42(11):569-73. doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2012.08.001. Epub 2012 Nov 9.
C Leport et al.

The scaling of contact rates with population density for the infectious disease models
Math Biosci. 2013 May 9. pii: S0025-5564(13)00123-5. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2013.04.013. [Epub ahead of print]
H Hu et al.

Retrospective time series analysis of veterinary laboratory data: preparing a historical baseline for cluster detection in syndromic surveillance
Prev Vet Med. 2013 May 1;109(3-4):219-27. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.10.010. Epub 2012 Nov 13.
FC Dorea et al.