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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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Leaping lopsided: a review of the current hypotheses regarding etiologies of limb malformations in frogs

Recent progress in the investigation of limb malformations in free-living frogs has underlined the wide range in the types of limb malformations and the apparent spatiotemporal clustering of their occurrence. Here, we review the current understanding of normal and abnormal vertebrate limb development and regeneration and discuss some of the molecular events that may bring about limb malformation.
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I.K. Loeffler, D.L. Stocum, J.F. Fallon, C.U. Meteyer
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Perfluorooctane sulfonate in fish-eating water birds including bald eagles and albatrosses

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) was measured in 161 samples of liver, kidney, blood, or egg yolk from 21 species of fish-eating water birds collected in the United States including albatrosses from Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in the central North Pacific Ocean. Concentrations of PFOS in the blood plasma of bald eagles collected from the midwestern United States ranged from 13 to 2220 ng/mL (mean:
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K. Kannan, J. C. Franson, W.W. Bowerman, K.J. Hansen, P. D. Jones, J. P. Giesy
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Immune status of free-ranging green turtles with fibropapillomatosis from Hawaii

Cell-mediated and humoral immune status of free-ranging green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Hawaii (USA) with and without fibropapillomatosis (FP) were assessed. Tumored and non-tumored turtles from Kaneohe Bay (KB) on the island of Oahu and from FP-free areas on the west (Kona/Kohala) coast of the island of Hawaii were sampled from April 1998 through February 1999. Turtles on Oahu were grouped (0–3
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Thierry M. Work, Robert Rameyer, George H. Balazs, Carolyn Cray, Sandra P. Chang
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Size characteristics of stones ingested by common loons

Common Loon (Gavia immer) carcasses recovered in New England had more stones of greater combined mass in their stomachs than loons from the southeastern United States. Stones retained in sieves with mesh sizes between 4.75 and 8.00 mm accounted for the greatest percentage (by mass) of grit in loon stomachs. The median longest dimension of the largest single stone in each stomach was 12.5 mm in loo
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J. Christian Franson, Scott P. Hansen, Mark Pokras, Rose Miconi
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Mortality Report

No abstract available.
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K. A. Converse, A. Schrader
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Mortality Report

No abstract available.
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Kimberli J.G. Miller, K. Converse, L. Glaser, A. Schrader
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

National Wildlife Health Center's Quarterly Mortality Report

No abstract available.
Authors
Kimberli J.G. Miller, K. Converse, A. Schrader
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Pleurochrysis pseudoroscoffensis (Prymnesiophyceae) blooms on the surface of the Salton Sea, California

Dense populations of the coccolithophore Pleurochrysis pseudoroscoffensis were found in surface films at several locations around the Salton Sea in February-August, 1999. An unidentified coccolithophorid was also found in low densities in earlier studies of the lake (1955-1956). To our knowledge, this is the first record of this widespread marine species in any lake. Samples taken from surface fil
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K.M. Reifel, M. P. McCoy, M. A. Tiffany, T.E. Rocke, C.C. Trees, S.B. Barlow, D. J. Faulkner, S. H. Hurlbert
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center, Salton Sea

Disease mortality events involving Ross's Geese

No abstract available.
Authors
M. D. Samuel, K. A. Converse, Kimberli J.G. Miller
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Type characters of non-native plant species in Great Lakes national parks (USA)

Non-native plant species are increasing in frequency and abundance in many natural areas in the United States. In Midwestern National Parks, as much as one third of the flora may be non-native. It was hypothesized that botanical characters of these species could be used to typify them and improve the methods of predicting invasions. Data on 19 characters of 341 non-native species from the four Gre
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J. P. Bennett
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Pathology of Amphibia

No abstract available.
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David E. Green
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Spontaneous neoplasia in amphibia

No abstract available.
Authors
David Earl Green, J.C. Harshbarger
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center