Wildlife health and supplemental feeding: a review and management recommendations

MH Murray, DJ Becker, RJ Hall, SM Hernandez - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Humans provide supplemental food to wildlife under many contexts, ranging from
professional feeding areas for game species to backyard bird feeders. Such resources …

Infection, Transmission, Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development against Mycoplasma gallisepticum

SP Mugunthan, G Kannan, HM Chandra, B Paital - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycoplasma sp. comprises cell wall-less bacteria with reduced genome size and can infect
mammals, reptiles, birds, and plants. Avian mycoplasmosis, particularly in chickens, is …

Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird

JS Adelman, SC Moyers… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual heterogeneity can influence the dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife and
humans alike. Thus, recent work has sought to identify behavioural characteristics that …

Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): bluetongue

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare … - Efsa …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever
reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype …

Effects of bird-feeding activities on the health of wild birds

TE Wilcoxen, DJ Horn, BM Hogan… - Conservation …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Among the most popular reasons that people feed wild birds is that they want to help birds.
The extent to which supplemental food helps birds, however, is not well established. From …

Mycoplasmosis

N Ferguson‐Noel, NK Armour… - Diseases of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Avian mycoplasmosis is a collection of diseases of worldwide distribution caused by
bacteria in the genus Mycoplasma affecting several bird species. This chapter offers detailed …

Ultrafast Evolution and Loss of CRISPRs Following a Host Shift in a Novel Wildlife Pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum

NF Delaney, S Balenger, C Bonneaud, CJ Marx… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Measureable rates of genome evolution are well documented in human pathogens but are
less well understood in bacterial pathogens in the wild, particularly during and after host …

Garden bird feeding: insights and prospects from a north-south comparison of this global urban phenomenon

SJ Reynolds, JA Galbraith, JA Smith… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Intentional feeding of wild birds in gardens or backyards is one of the most popular forms of
human–wildlife interactions in the developed world, especially in urban environments. The …

Disease outbreak thresholds emerge from interactions between movement behavior, landscape structure, and epidemiology

LA White, JD Forester, ME Craft - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Disease models have provided conflicting evidence as to whether spatial heterogeneity
promotes or impedes pathogen persistence. Moreover, there has been limited theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] Mycoplasmosis and upper respiratory tract disease of tortoises: a review and update

ER Jacobson, MB Brown, LD Wendland, DR Brown… - The Veterinary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Tortoise mycoplasmosis is one of the most extensively characterized infectious diseases of
chelonians. A 1989 outbreak of upper respiratory tract disease (URTD) in free-ranging …