Causes of pneumonia epizootics among bighorn sheep, Western United States, 2008-2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 406-414

  Besser, Thomas E ^a,b   Highland, Margaret A ^a,c   Baker, Katherine ^a   Cassirer, E Frances ^d   Anderson, Neil J ^e   Ramsey, Jennifer M ^e   Mansfield, Kristin ^f   Bruning, Darren L ^g   Wolff, Peregrine ^h   Smith, Joshua B ⁱ   Jenks, Jonathan A ⁱ  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Washington Anim Dis Diagn Lab   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^e WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^h Nevada Department of Wildlife   (United States)

ⁱ SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIBERSTEINIA TREHALOSI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; EPIZOOTIC PNEUMONIA; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, BIGHORN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863229380     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.111554     Document Type: Article

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