Sentences with phrase «wild strain infection»

Real time PCR of fetal tissue samples confirmed EHV - 1 wild strain infection.

Not exact matches

McAloose and her colleagues are now working on collecting samples from dogs and small wild carnivores in the Russian Far East to get a more complete picture of the various strains of CDV in circulation in the hopes of linking tiger infections to a source, knowledge that would hopefully aid in preventing more infections among tigers.

Three factors suggest that honeybees are spreading the parasites into wild bumblebees: honeybees have higher background levels of the virus and the fungus than bumblebees; bumblebee infection is predicted by patterns of honeybee infection; and honeybees and bumblebees at the same sites share genetic strains of DWV.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

Melissa Miller, Wildlife Pathologist, California Department of Fish and Game Miller was one of 14 co-authors to link the Type X strain of T. gondii — responsible for nearly three - quarters of sea otter infections, according to one study [1]-- to wild felids (e.g., mountain lions and bobcats) rather than domestic cats.