期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
Congenital deformities and neoplasia are poorly documented in wildlife, owing to the difficulty of detection in wild populations. Congenital deformiti......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
A Common Loon (Gavia immer) was found recumbent at Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, US, and euthanized. Necropsy revealed a caseous mass in the ki......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
Improving rapid detection methods for pathogens is important for research as we collectively aim to improve the health of ecosystems globally. In the ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (1)
Populations of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) have been declining for multiple decades because of a variety of stres......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
Cytauxzoonosis is a fatal tick-borne disease in domestic cats caused by infection with the apicomplexan Cytauxzoon felis. Bobcats are the natural wild......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
Herpesviruses have been detected in bat species from several countries, with a limited number of studies examining herpesviruses in Pteropus spp. (fly......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
African swine fever is a viral hemorrhagic disease of pigs (Sus scrofa) caused by a double-stranded DNA virus, African swine fever virus (ASFV). With ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
A cutaneous mass in a free-ranging brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) was composed of neoplastic spindle to polygonal cells with multinucleated giant ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
We captured a <1-d-old male elk calf (Cervus canadensis) with a shortened neck. Postmortem examination revealed trauma, meconium aspiration syndrom......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (3)
Two parasites were collected from the epithelial layer of the tongue mucosa of a brown-nosed coati (Nasua nasua) in an area of Atlantic Forest in Mina......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
Elaeophora schneideri is a filarial nematode of North America that occasionally infects aberrant ruminant hosts such as moose (Alces alces). The role ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
Rabies is an acute progressive encephalitis caused by infection with rabies viruses, with reservoirs among bats and mesocarnivores, but all mammals ar......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
Introduced fungal pathogens have caused declines and extinctions of naive wildlife populations across vertebrate classes. Consequences of introduced p......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (4)
One of the major threats for the massive loss in global amphibian diversity is chytridiomycosis, caused by chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidi......
期刊: JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES, 2023; 59 (1)
The coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii is found worldwide infecting warm-blooded vertebrates. Felids are the definitive hosts; other species act as ......