Desert bighorn sheep mortality due to presumptive type C botulism in California

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 184-189

  Swift, Pamela K ^a   Wehausen, John D ^b   Ernest, Holly B ^c   Singer, Randall S ^c   Pauli, Andrew M ^a   Kinde, Hailu ^d   Rocke, Tonie E ^e   Bleich, Vernon C ^a,f  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Botulinum toxin; Clostridium botulinum type C; Mortality event; Ovis canadensis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CYANOBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BOTULISM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BOTULINUM TOXINS; BOTULISM; CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MICE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TELEMETRY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0033631627     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.1.184     Document Type: Article

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