Toxoplasma gondii in Wild Cervids and Wild Canids: Feeding Ecology, Environmental Exposure, and Trophic Transmission [PDF]
PathogensToxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protozoan transmitted by environmentally persistent oocysts and by tissue cysts in infected prey or meat. Although wild cervids and wild canids are increasingly used as wildlife sentinels, their complementary ecological ...
Vy Dinh Bao Tran, Dong-Hyuk Jeong
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Comparative macrogenomics reveal plateau adaptation of gut microbiome in cervids [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Diverse gut microbiota in animals significantly influences host physiology, ecological adaptation, and evolution. However, the specific functional roles of gut microbiota in facilitating host adaptation, as well as the coevolutionary dynamics ...
Bin Li +8 more
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Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Wild and Farmed Cervids in Poland
Pathogens, 2021 Background: The role of cervids in the circulation of A. phagocytophilum has not yet been clearly determined; however, several species of wild and farm cervids may be a natural reservoir of this bacteria.
Anna W. Myczka +5 more
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Chronic Wasting Disease in Farmed Cervids, South Korea, 2001–2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesChronic wasting disease (CWD) was identified in imported elk in South Korea in 2001 and has spread among cervids nationwide. The country’s surveillance and control policy culls cervids from any CWD-positive farms, and prevalence during 2020–2024 was
Young Pyo Choi +6 more
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Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Escherichia coli Recovered from Mesenteric Lymph Nodes of Free-Ranging Game Ungulates in Western Romania [PDF]
AntibioticsBackground/Objectives: The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within a One Health framework highlights the role of wildlife as environmental reservoirs.
Răzvan-Tudor Pătrînjan +7 more
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Pathogens, 2017 Since chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first identified nearly 50 years ago in a captive mule deer herd in the Rocky Mountains of the United States, it has slowly spread across North America through the natural and anthropogenic movement of cervids and ...
Juergen A. Richt, Nicholas J. Haley
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Chronic Wasting Disease Monitoring in Italy 2017–2019: Neuropathological Findings in Cervids
Pathogens, 2022 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects cervids; it is classified under transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). CWD is particularly contagious, making its eradication in endemic areas very difficult and creating serious ...
Daniela Meloni, Letizia Tripodi
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The systematics of the Cervidae: a total evidence approach [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Systematic relationships of cervids have been controversial for decades. Despite new input from molecular systematics, consensus could only be partially reached.
Nicola S. Heckeberg
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The Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease—A Review
Foods, 2023 Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and ruminant species consumed by humans. Ruminant prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep and goats and chronic wasting ...
Michael A. Tranulis, Morten Tryland
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Seroepidemiology of Aino Virus in Farmed and Free-Ranging Cervids in the Republic of Korea
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Aino virus is an infectious, non-contagious, vector-borne agent that has been implicated in arthrogryposis-hydranencephaly syndrome in newborn cattle, sheep, and goats.
Jung-Yong Yeh, Yun Ji Ga
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