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Wildlife Disease Case Definitions

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Case definitions provide a standardized, science-based set of criteria for diagnosing disease and pathogens. This manual provides case definitions for selected diseases of importance to wildlife in Canada and the United States.

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Fatal suppurative nephritis caused by Pseudomonas in a chimpanzee

Reports of nephritis in chimpanzees are relatively rare, compared with those in other nonhuman primates. McClure and Guilloud reported chronic pyelonephritis in a 35-year-old female chimpanzee; Schmidt and Butler reported glomerulonephritis in an 11-year-old female chimpanzee, and Kim reported on a 12-year-old male with subacute interstitial nephritis in a chimpanzee after the animal had recurrent
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G. Migaki, D.M. Asher, H.W. Casey, Louis N. Locke, C.J. Gibbs, C. Gajdusek
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center, National Wildlife Health Center

An outbreak of streptococcosis in eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis)

An outbreak of streptococcosis (Streptococcus zooepidemicus), apparently the first recorded in wild birds, killed an estimated 7,500 eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) on Great Salt Lake (Utah) in November and December, 1977. Ducks and gulls feeding in the same area were unaffected.
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Wayne I. Jensen
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Feather mites of the greater sandhill crane (Grus canadensis tabida)

New taxa are described from Grus canadensis tabida: Brephosceles petersoni sp. n. (Alloptidae); Pseudogabucinia reticulata sp. n. (Kramerellidae); Geranolichus canadensis sp. n., and Gruolichus wodashae, gen. et sp. n. (Pterolichidae). Observations on resource partitioning by these mites are given.
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W.T. Atyeo, Ronald M. Windingstad
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Correlations between residues of dichlorodiphenylethane, polychlorinated biphenyl, and dieldrin in the serum and tissues of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)

No abstract available.
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Milton Friend, M. A. Haegle, D. L. Meeker, Rick Hudson, C. H. Baer
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Impacts of transmission lines on birds in flight: Proceedings of a workshop

Progress to alleviate the national and world energy problem will come as individual issues are identified and acceptable solutions implemented. One of the specific issues to emerge in the last few years in the United States is the impact of electric power transmission lines on birds in flight. Therefore, the National Power Plant Team, Office of Biological Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Studies on vertical and horizontal transmission of duck plague virus in apparently healthy waterfowl

Healthy waterfowl were found to be carriers of duck plague (DP) virus. Black ducks (Anas rubripes) and Canada geese (Branta canadensis) surviving a natural outbreak of DP at Coloma, Wisconsin, in 1973 yielded DP virus in cloacal swabs taken four years postinfection. Experimental infection of previously unexposed mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynochos) with the Coloma strain of DP virus CO-WI (73) also
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Elizabeth C. Burgess
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Working group: research needs

No abstract available.
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M. Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Diseases of wildlife: Problems in diagnosis and control

No abstract available.
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Milton Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

The importance of water management to the health of continental waterfowl populations

No abstract available.
Authors
M. Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

A bibliography of references to avian botulism

This bibliography, first compiled in 1970 in response to many requests for information on avian botulism, has been updated to include the literature published through 1975.In general, only articles dealing primarily with the avian disease are included, as opposed to those concerned with various aspects of the biology of Clostridium botulinum, either type C or type E. A few exceptions, such as Beng
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Jack E. Allen, Sonoma S. Wilson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Salmonella enteritidis and Arizona hinshawii isolated from wild sandhill cranes

Salmonella enteritidis serotype Rubislaw and Arizona hinshawii were isolated from cloacal swabs of "healthy" live-trapped sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis tabida) in Indiana and Wisconsin. These respective isolations were the first reported from wild sandhill cranes.
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R. M. Windingstad, D.O. Trainer, R. M. Duncan
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Disease problems and needs

No abstract available.
Authors
Milton Friend
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center