Genomics reveals historic and contemporary transmission dynamics of a bacterial disease among wildlife and livestock

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kamath, Pauline L ^a   Foster, Jeffrey T ^b,k   Drees, Kevin P ^b,k   Luikart, Gordon ^c   Quance, Christine ^d   Anderson, Neil J ^e   Clarke, P Ryan ^f   Cole, Eric K ^g   Drew, Mark L ^h   Edwards, William H ⁱ   Rhyan, Jack C ^f   Treanor, John J ^j   Wallen, Rick L ^j   White, Patrick J ^j   Robbe Austerman, Suelee ^d   Cross, Paul C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^e WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^f UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^g National Elk Refuge   (United States)

^h USGS National Wildlife Health Center Idaho   (United States)

ⁱ WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^j NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; PATHOGEN; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BISON; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HERD; HISTORY; HOST; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WILD ANIMAL;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BISON; BOS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BAYES THEOREM; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LIVESTOCK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84963867421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11448     Document Type: Article

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