The Hook Lake Wood Bison Recovery Project: Can a disease-free captive wood bison herd be recovered from a wild population infected with bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 969, Issue , 2002, Pages 229-235

  Nishi, J S ^a   Elkin, B T ^a   Ellsworth, T R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bison bison athabascae; Bovine brucellosis; Bovine tuberculosis; Brucella abortus; Disease eradication; Mycobacterium bovis; Wildlife conservation; Wood bison

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; BRUCELLA VACCINE; DIHYDROSTREPTOMYCIN; ENROFLOXACIN; ISONIAZID; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; RIFAMPICIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALO; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COW; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETUS; HERD; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORPHANAGE; PROPHYLAXIS; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON; BISON BISON ATHABASCAE; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR SUIS; BUBALUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEGIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036411709     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04384.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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