Badger Ecology, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Population Management: Lessons from the Island of Ireland

AW Byrne, A Allen, S Ciuti, E Gormley… - Transboundary and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The European badger, Meles meles, is an important wildlife host for Mycobacterium bovis
and contributes to the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle in several …

Effects of Mustelid gammaherpesvirus 1 (MusGHV-1) Reactivation in European Badger (Meles meles) Genital Tracts on Reproductive Fitness

M Tsai, U Fogarty, AW Byrne, J O'Keeffe, C Newman… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reactivation of latent Gammaherpesvirus in the genital tract can lead to reproductive failure
in domestic animals. Nevertheless, this pathophysiology has not received formal study in …

[PDF][PDF] Badger ecology, bovine tuberculosis, and population management: lessons from the island of Ireland

A Byrne, A Allen, S Ciuti, E Gormley… - Transboundary and …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Medium-sized carnivores are an important, although sometimes overlooked, component of
our biodiversity (1), 56 often providing key ecosystem services (eg, pest control, ecosystem …

Epidemiology of a sexually transmittable herpesvirus, the Mustelid gammaherpesvirus 1 (MusGHV-1), and its link to reproductive health and physiological stress in …

MS Tsai - 2021 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Along with virulence and transmissibility, pathogen transmission mode can be decisive on
host-pathogen dynamics, where sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are predicted to be …