Search Results - "LAURENSON, KAREN"

Canine distemper in endangered Ethiopian wolves by Gordon, Christopher H, Banyard, Ashley C, Hussein, Alo, Laurenson, M Karen, Malcolm, James R, Marino, Jorgelina, Regassa, Fekede, Stewart, Anne-Marie E, Fooks, Anthony R, Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio

“…The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is the world's rarest canid; ≈500 wolves remain. The largest population is found within the Bale Mountains National Park…”
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Canine vaccination—Providing broader benefits for disease control by Cleaveland, Sarah, Kaare, Magai, Knobel, Darryn, Laurenson, M. Karen

“…This paper reviews the broader benefits of canine vaccination to human and animal health and welfare with an emphasis on the impacts of mass dog vaccination…”
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Relating Long-Term Studies to Conservation Practice: the Case of the Serengeti Cheetah Project by DURANT, SARAH M, BASHIR, SULTANA, MADDOX, THOMAS, LAURENSON, M. KAREN

“…Although detailed, long-term scientific studies provide potentially crucial information for conservation, they are rare. Moreover, there is often a disjunction…”
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Rabies in endangered Ethiopian wolves by Randall, Deborah A, Williams, Stuart D, Kuzmin, Ivan V, Rupprecht, Charles E, Tallents, Lucy A, Tefera, Zelealem, Argaw, Kifle, Shiferaw, Fekadu, Knobel, Darryn L, Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio, Laurenson, M Karen

“…With rabies emerging as a particular threat to wild canids, we report on a rabies outbreak in a subpopulation of endangered Ethiopian wolves in the Bale…”
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A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania by Knobel, Darryn L, Laurenson, M Karen, Kazwala, Rudovick R, Boden, Lisa A, Cleaveland, Sarah

“…Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs,…”
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Markus Borner, a life at the conservation front line by Grant, J., Hopcraft, C., Laurenson, M. Karen

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Cheetahs modify their prey handling behavior depending on risks from top predators by Hilborn, Anne, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Caro, Tim, Kelly, Marcella J., Laurenson, M. Karen, Durant, Sarah M.

“…While handling large kills, mesocarnivores are particularly vulnerable to kleptoparasitism and predation from larger predators. We used 35 years of…”
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Prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in red foxes ( Vulpes vulpes) from around the UK by Hamilton, Clare M., Gray, Robert, Wright, Stephen E., Gangadharan, Babunilayam, Laurenson, Karen, Innes, Elisabeth A.

“…The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in a random sample of red foxes from around…”
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The role of non-viraemic transmission on the persistence and dynamics of a tick borne virus--Louping ill in red grouse ( Lagopus lagopus scoticus) and mountain hares ( Lepus timidus) by Norman, Rachel, Ross, David, Laurenson, M Karen, Hudson, Peter J

“…There exist many tick borne infections that are of either economic or public health interest. Mathematical models have previously been used to describe the…”
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Disease as a threat to endangered species: Ethiopian wolves, domestic dogs and canine pathogens by Laurenson, Karen, Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio, Thompson, Hal, Shiferaw, Fekadu, Thirgood, Simon, Malcolm, James

“…With increasing awareness of disease as an endangering process, an assessment of which pathogens might pose a problem and their patterns of infection in…”
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Spatial ecology of golden jackal in farmland in the Ethiopian Highlands by Admasu, Ermias, Thirgood, Simon J., Bekele, Afework, Karen Laurenson, M.

“…The spatial ecology of golden jackal Canis aureus was studied on farmland adjacent to the Bale Mountains National Park in southern Ethiopia during 1998–2000…”
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Ticks need not bite their red grouse hosts to infect them with louping ill virus by Gilbert, L, Jones, L.D, Laurenson, M.K, Gould, E.A, Reid, H.W, Hudson, P.J

“…) became infected with a member of the tick–borne encephalitis virus complex, louping ill virus, after eating the infected tick vector. Furthermore, we…”
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Conservation Relevance of Epidemiological Research into Carnivore Viral Diseases in the Serengeti by CLEAVELAND, SARAH, MLENGEYA, TITUS, KAARE, MAGAI, HAYDON, DAN, LEMBO, TIZIANA, LAURENSON, M. KAREN, PACKER, CRAIG

“…Recent outbreaks of rabies and canine distemper in wildlife populations of the Serengeti show that infectious disease constitutes a significant cause of…”
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Road will ruin Serengeti by Dobson, Andrew P, Borner, Markus, Sinclair, Anthony R. E, Hudson, Peter J, Anderson, T. Michael, Bigurube, Gerald, Davenport, Tim B. B, Deutsch, James, Durant, Sarah M, Estes, Richard D, Estes, Anna B, Fryxell, John, Foley, Charles, Gadd, Michelle E, Haydon, Dan, Holdo, Ricardo, Holt, Robert D, Homewood, Katherine, Hopcraft, J. Grant C, Hilborn, Ray, Jambiya, George L. K, Laurenson, M. Karen, Melamari, Lota, Morindat, Alais Ole, Ogutu, Joseph O, Schaller, George, Wolanski, Eric

“…Tanzania's iconic national park must not be divided by a highway, say Andrew Dobson, Markus Borner, Tony Sinclair and 24 others. A route farther south would…”
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Ecological and Genetic Factors in Conservation: A Cautionary Tale by Caro, T. M., Laurenson, M. Karen

“…Recent studies of cheetahs with little genetic variation failed to prove that inbreeding is a major factor in population decline. A high infant-mortality rate…”
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Models for the collaborative management of Africa's protected areas by Baghai, Mujon, Miller, Jennifer R.B., Blanken, Lisa J., Dublin, Holly T., Fitzgerald, Kathleen H., Gandiwa, Patience, Laurenson, Karen, Milanzi, James, Nelson, Alastair, Lindsey, Peter

“…Africa's protected areas (PAs) are under severe and growing anthropogenic pressure. Resources for PA management are a small fraction of what is necessary in…”
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Infectious disease: Inextricable linkages between human and ecosystem health by Macdonald, David W., Laurenson, M. Karen

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Identifying reservoirs of infection: a conceptual and practical challenge by Haydon, Daniel T, Cleaveland, Sarah, Taylor, Louise H, Laurenson, M Karen

“…Many infectious agents, especially those that cause emerging diseases, infect more than one host species. Managing reservoirs of multihost pathogens often…”
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Transmission of louping ill virus between infected and uninfected ticks co-feeding on mountain hares by JONES, LINDA D., GAUNT, MICHAEL, HAILS, ROSIE S., LAURENSON, KAREN, HUDSON, PETER J., REID, HUGH, HENBEST, PAULINE, GOULD, ERNEST A.

“… Most of the data on oral infection of ticks by louping ill virus have been obtained from experiments in which animals were infected by syringe inoculation…”
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A note on the spatial ecology of African civet Civettictis civetta and common genet Genetta genetta in farmland in the Ethiopian Highlands by Admasu, Ermias, Thirgood, Simon J., Bekele, Afework, Karen Laurenson, M.

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