Tuesday, 28th July 64th International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association 2015

• When feces matter: a synthesis of a multiannual investigation of Echinococcus multilocularis transmission ecology in a North American urban setting - Stefano Liccioli

• Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus: emerging infectious disease in SE Asia or newly described endemic? - Supaphen Sripiboon
• A multi-disciplinary approach to investigation of the emerging fungal pathogen Paranannizziopsis australasiensis in Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) - Sarah Alexander
• Disease ecology during the breeding season in the endangered Litoria verreauxii alpina and management implications - Laura A Brannelly
• A pharmacokinetic investigation of florfenicol as a possible treatment of chlamydial disease in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Christie Budd
• Butorphanol with oxygen insufflation corrects etorphine-induced hypoxaemia in chemically immobilized white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) - Anna Haw
• Hookworm disease in South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) pups at Guafo Island, Chilean Patagonia - Mauricio Seguel

• Industry, fluoride and marsupials: comparative pathology, spatial epidemiology and bioindicators - Clare E Death
• Variations in plasma lead concentrations in urban North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) chicks suggests multiple pathways of exposure - Aditi Sriram
• Toxicant concentrations in Australian sea lion, Neophoca cincerea, pups as a proxy for maternal concentrations - Huaikai Shi
• Seroprevalence and risk factors for zoonotic transmission of Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) in wildlife rehabilitators from the United States and Canada.  - Sarah G.H. Sapp
• Evidence for the transmission of Streptococcus pneumonia from humans to wild habituated great apes - Kim S Gruetzmacher
• Prevalence of the zoonotic pathogenic bacteria, Salmonella and Campylobacter, in translocated populations of an endemic New Zealand reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) - Stephanie J Price
• A single haplotype of Haemoproteus is widespread in white ibis (Eudocimus albus) from urban sites in southern Florida - Sarah M. Coker
• Enteropathogens in house sparrows along an urban gradient in Belgium - Lieze L.O. Rouffaer

• Molecular investigation and antemortem diagnosis of cardiovascular flukes (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) in marine turtles - Phoebe A Chapman
• Prevalence and genotyping studies of Chlamydia pecorum in Victorian koalas - Alistair R Legione
• Severe transmissible eye infection in reindeer: bacterium or virus? - Javier Sánchez Romano
• Genomic analysis demonstrates continuing evolution, recombination and environmental sources of enteric bacteria in isolated wildlife populations - Zoe L Grange
• Mortality and morbidity of infant mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): A 46-year retrospective analysis  - James M Hassell
• Sarcoptic mange in San Joaquin kit fox: a spatial stochastic model to evaluate control strategies. - Diego Montecino

• Agent-based modeling of respiratory disease transmission in chimpanzees to quantitatively evaluate the performance of syndromic surveillance  - Tiffany M Wolf
• Modelling transmission dynamics of a novel Alphacoronavirus in an Australian population of large-footed myotis (Myotis macropus) - Jaewoon Jeong
• Modeling chronic wasting disease-driven natural selection of free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in southeastern Wyoming - Melia DeVivo
• Participatory epidemiology and Indigenous knowledge about muskoxen and caribou in the Canadian Arctic: preliminary insights for wildlife health surveillance. - Matilde MT Tomaselli
• A burning question – how does fire impact wildlife behavior and parasitism? - Krista Jones

• One health an infectious diseases in the Arctic: Emerging challenges for animals and humans - Carlos G. Das Neves
• Do introduced nematodes pose a risk to endemic birds in New Zealand? - Maurice Alley
• Identification and molecular characterisation of blood-borne protozoan parasites in native mammal species from the Northern Territory – Australia. - Amanda Barbosa
• What are fruit bats doing in my back yard? The disease and ecological implications of Grey-headed flying foxes in South Australia. - Wayne Boardman
• Haemolytic anaemia associated with theileriosis in an orphaned platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). - Joanne H Connolly
• Plasmodium species in bats in Kenya - Elizabeth A Cook
• Bovine TB Control in New Zealand: A real-time example of the convergence of human, animal and conservation medicine. - Kevin B Crews
• Protecting Critically Endangered Sea Turtles from Invasive Predators in the Caribbean - Luis Cruz
• AMRRIC: A grass-roots One Health approach - Bonny Cumming
• Caught in the act: the catastrophic collapse of the mountain chicken frog due to chytridiomycosis.  - Andrew A. Cunningham
• Malformations and disease in the Cururu Toad (Rhinella jimi) on the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil: A potential model for ecosystem health monitoring. - Catia De Paula
• Characterising parasites of an endangered South Australian lizard as risk assessment for a future translocation  - Bonnie T Derne
• Developing a population health index for an apex marine Arctic predator, the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), using biological, medical and sociocultural measures to predict resilience in a time of climatic, economic and social change. - Padraig J Duignan
• Flying-fox roost disturbance and Hendra virus spillover risk - Dan Edson
• Evaluation of semen characteristics of Persian fallow deer ( Dama Dama Mesopotamica) in dasht-e -naz refuge in Iran - behrang ekrami
• Occurrence of the Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) and Chlamydia pecorum in the Mount Lofty Ranges koala population - Jessica Fabijan
• Assessment of metal ingestion in female northern pintails (Anas acuta) wintering along the Texas coast  - Alan M. Fedynich
• Lack of human awareness and the need for increased public education regarding the emerging zoonotic parasite, Bayliscaris procyonis - La Vonne Fedynich
• Apicomplexan protozoal infection, presumably Theileria cervi, associated with brain abscessation in a free-ranging, white-tailed deer from Georgia, U.S.A - Heather Fenton
• Pathology in the female upper genital tract of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) (Victoria, Australia) - Samoa Giovannini
• Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua): a transmission host for Brucella pinnipedialis? - Jacques Godfroid
• Natural Hendra virus infection in flying-foxes, tissue tropism and risk factors. - Lauren Goldspink
• Granulomatous pneumonia associated with haemosporidial schizonts in little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) - Anita N Gordon
• Diversity of MHC DQB and DRB genes in the endangered Australian sea lion pups (Neophoca cinerea). - Damien Higgins
• Mycobacteriosis in New Zealand Birds - Stuart Hunter
• Review of pathology of a population of captive Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) 2007-2015 - Borjana Kragic
• Avioserpens in North American Aechmophorus occidentalis (Western Grebe): A new host and geographic record for a dracunculoid nematode and implications of migration and climate change - Patricia J Latas
• Salmonella serotypes isolated from reptiles in the Kimberley, Western Australia - David J McLelland
• PREDICT - Wildlife Disease Surveillance in Viet Nam - Long Nguyen
• Risk Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Antibodies to Leptospira interrogans in Wild Lowland Tapirs (Tapirus Terrestris) in the Brazilian Pantanal - Renata Carolina Fernandes Santos
• Investigation of bat-to-bat transmission of Marburg virus in the Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus - Amy J. Schuh
• Novel paramyxoviruses in Australian flying-fox populations support host-virus coevolution. - Craig S Smith
• Anaesthetic Considerations for Free-ranging Adult Male Australian Sea Lions - Simone Vitali
• Trichuris trichiura in African Green Monkeys: a One-Health Approach to a Zoonotic Threat for Humans. - Katalina Z. Brenes

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