A review of zoonotic pathogens of dromedary camels

S Zhu, D Zimmerman, SL Deem - EcoHealth, 2019 - Springer
Dromedary, or one-humped, camels Camelus dromedarius are an almost exclusively
domesticated species that are common in arid areas as both beasts of burden and …

Overview of bat and wildlife coronavirus surveillance in Africa: a framework for global investigations

M Geldenhuys, M Mortlock, JH Epstein, JT Pawęska… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had devastating health
and socio-economic impacts. Human activities, especially at the wildlife interphase, are at …

Host species and environment drivers of ectoparasite community of rodents in a Mojave Desert wetlands

AM López-Pérez, R Pesapane, DL Clifford, L Backus… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Drivers of patterns of ectoparasitism in rodents in patchy Mojave Desert wetlands were
investigated. A total of 1,571 ectoparasites in Mesostigmata, Trombidiformes, Siphonaptera …

Burrow dusting or oral vaccination prevents plague-associated prairie dog colony collapse

DW Tripp, TE Rocke, JP Runge, RC Abbott, MW Miller - EcoHealth, 2017 - Springer
Plague impacts prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.), the endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela
nigripes) and other sensitive wildlife species. We compared efficacy of prophylactic …

Prairie dogs, persistent plague, flocking fleas, and pernicious positive feedback

DE Biggins, DA Eads - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) is a deadly flea-borne disease that
remains a threat to public health nearly worldwide and is particularly disruptive ecologically …

Boom and bust cycles of black-tailed prairie dog populations in the Thunder Basin grassland ecosystem

AD Davidson, DJ Augustine, H Jacobsen… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) exhibit boom and bust cycles in
landscapes where they are affected by outbreaks of plague caused by the introduced …

Evolution, ecology, and zoonotic transmission of betacoronaviruses: A review

HF Jelinek, M Mousa, E Alefishat, W Osman… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus infections have been a part of the animal kingdom for millennia. The difference
emerging in the twenty-first century is that a greater number of novel coronaviruses are …

[HTML][HTML] Yersinia pestis survival and replication in potential ameba reservoir

DW Markman, MF Antolin, RA Bowen… - Emerging infectious …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Plague ecology is characterized by sporadic epizootics, then periods of dormancy. Building
evidence suggests environmentally ubiquitous amebae act as feral macrophages and hosts …

Long‐term effects of black‐tailed prairie dogs on livestock grazing distribution and mass gain

DJ Augustine, JD Derner - The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The conservation and management of black‐tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)
have been contentious issues in grasslands of central North America for much of the past …

Precipitation, climate change, and parasitism of prairie dogs by fleas that transmit plague

DA Eads, JL Hoogland - Journal of Parasitology, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) are hematophagous ectoparasites that can reduce
the fitness of vertebrate hosts. Laboratory populations of fleas decline under dry conditions …