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Seasonal patterns of hormones, macroparasites, and microparasites in wild African ungulates: the interplay among stress, reproduction, and disease by Cizauskas, Carrie A, Turner, Wendy C, Pitts, Neville, Getz, Wayne M

“…Sex hormones, reproductive status, and pathogen load all affect stress. Together with stress, these factors can modulate the immune system and affect disease…”
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Pathogen transmission at stage-structured infectious patches: Killers and vaccinators by Caraco, Thomas, Turner, Wendy C.

“…•Obligate-killer pathogens often convert infected hosts to spatially localized, infectious patches.•An infectious patch passes through stages of transmission…”
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Spores and soil from six sides: interdisciplinarity and the environmental biology of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) by Carlson, Colin J., Getz, Wayne M., Kausrud, Kyrre L., Cizauskas, Carrie A., Blackburn, Jason K., Bustos Carrillo, Fausto A., Colwell, Rita, Easterday, W. Ryan, Ganz, Holly H., Kamath, Pauline L., Økstad, Ole A., Turner, Wendy C., Kolstø, Anne‐Brit, Stenseth, Nils C.

“…ABSTRACT Environmentally transmitted diseases are comparatively poorly understood and managed, and their ecology is particularly understudied. Here we identify…”
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Home range plus: a space-time characterization of movement over real landscapes by Lyons, Andrew J, Turner, Wendy C, Getz, Wayne M

“…Advances in GPS technology have created both opportunities in ecology as well as a need for analytical tools that can deal with the growing volume of data and…”
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Periodontitis is associated with significant hepatic fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Alazawi, William, Bernabe, Eduardo, Tai, David, Janicki, Tomasz, Kemos, Polychronis, Samsuddin, Salma, Syn, Wing-Kin, Gillam, David, Turner, Wendy

“…Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has a bidirectional association with metabolic syndrome. It affects up to 30% of the general population, 70% of…”
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Seasonal roost characteristics and fall behavior of coastal populations of Northern Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) by Hoff, Samantha, Pendergast, Casey, Johnson, Luanne, Olson, Elizabeth, O'Dell, Danielle, Dowling, Zara R., Gorman, Katherine M., Herzog, Carl, Turner, Wendy C.

“…Temperate bats exhibit seasonal and sex differences in resource selection and activity patterns that are influenced by ambient conditions. During fall,…”
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Effective Field Sampling of Rectoanal Mucosa–Associated Lymphoid Tissue for Antemortem Chronic Wasting Disease Testing in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) by Gilbertson, Marie L. J., Long, Lindsey J., Inzalaco, Heather N., Turner, Wendy C., Storm, Daniel J.

“…Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease of cervids that has spread across much of North America. Although gold standard CWD diagnostics involve…”
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Lethal exposure: An integrated approach to pathogen transmission via environmental reservoirs by Turner, Wendy C., Kausrud, Kyrre L., Beyer, Wolfgang, Easterday, W. Ryan, Barandongo, Zoë R., Blaschke, Elisabeth, Cloete, Claudine C., Lazak, Judith, Van Ert, Matthew N., Ganz, Holly H., Turnbull, Peter C. B., Stenseth, Nils Chr, Getz, Wayne M.

“…To mitigate the effects of zoonotic diseases on human and animal populations, it is critical to understand what factors alter transmission dynamics. Here we…”
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Interactions between Bacillus anthracis and plants may promote anthrax transmission by Ganz, Holly H, Turner, Wendy C, Brodie, Eoin L, Kusters, Martina, Shi, Ying, Sibanda, Heniritha, Torok, Tamas, Getz, Wayne M

“…Environmental reservoirs are essential in the maintenance and transmission of anthrax but are poorly characterized. The anthrax agent, Bacillus anthracis was…”
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The roles of environmental variation and parasite survival in virulence–transmission relationships by Turner, Wendy C., Kamath, Pauline L., van Heerden, Henriette, Huang, Yen-Hua, Barandongo, Zoe R., Bruce, Spencer A., Kausrud, Kyrre

“…Disease outbreaks are a consequence of interactions among the three components of a host–parasite system: the infectious agent, the host and the environment…”
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The persistence of time: the lifespan of Bacillus anthracis spores in environmental reservoirs by Barandongo, Zoë R., Dolfi, Amelie C., Bruce, Spencer A., Rysava, Kristyna, Huang, Yen-Hua, Joel, Hendrina, Hassim, Ayesha, Kamath, Pauline L., van Heerden, Henriette, Turner, Wendy C.

“…Anthrax is a lethal bacterial zoonosis primarily affecting herbivorous wildlife and livestock. Upon host death Bacillus anthracis vegetative cells form spores…”
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Fatal attraction: vegetation responses to nutrient inputs attract herbivores to infectious anthrax carcass sites by Turner, Wendy C., Kausrud, Kyrre L., Krishnappa, Yathin S., Cromsigt, Joris P. G. M., Ganz, Holly H., Mapaure, Isaac, Cloete, Claudine C., Havarua, Zepee, Küsters, Martina, Getz, Wayne M., Stenseth, Nils Chr

“…Parasites can shape the foraging behaviour of their hosts through cues indicating risk of infection. When cues for risk co-occur with desired traits such as…”
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Disease or drought: environmental fluctuations release zebra from a potential pathogen-triggered ecological trap by Huang, Yen-Hua, Joel, Hendrina, Küsters, Martina, Barandongo, Zoe R, Cloete, Claudine C, Hartmann, Axel, Kamath, Pauline L, Kilian, J Werner, Mfune, John K E, Shatumbu, Gabriel, Zidon, Royi, Getz, Wayne M, Turner, Wendy C

“…When a transmission hotspot for an environmentally persistent pathogen establishes in otherwise high-quality habitat, the disease may exert a strong impact on…”
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Development of conjugated secondary antibodies for wildlife disease surveillance by Ochai, Sunday O, Crafford, Jan E, Kamath, Pauline L, Turner, Wendy C, van Heerden, Henriette

“…Disease monitoring in free-ranging wildlife is a challenge and often relies on passive surveillance. Alternatively, proactive surveillance that relies on the…”
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Distribution and molecular evolution of bacillus anthracis genotypes in Namibia by Beyer, Wolfgang, Bellan, Steve, Eberle, Gisela, Ganz, Holly H, Getz, Wayne M, Haumacher, Renate, Hilss, Karen A, Kilian, Werner, Lazak, Judith, Turner, Wendy C, Turnbull, Peter C B

“…The recent development of genetic markers for Bacillus anthracis has made it possible to monitor the spread and distribution of this pathogen during and…”
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Frequent and seasonally variable sublethal anthrax infections are accompanied by short-lived immunity in an endemic system by Cizauskas, Carrie A., Bellan, Steven E., Turner, Wendy C., Vance, Russell E., Getz, Wayne M.

“…1. Few studies have examined host-pathogen interactions in wildlife from an immunological perspective, particularly in the context of seasonal and longitudinal…”
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Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems by Huang, Yen‐Hua, Kausrud, Kyrre, Hassim, Ayesha, Ochai, Sunday O., Schalkwyk, O. Louis, Dekker, Edgar H., Buyantuev, Alexander, Cloete, Claudine C., Kilian, J. Werner, Mfune, John K. E., Kamath, Pauline L., Heerden, Henriette, Turner, Wendy C.

“…Environmental factors are common forces driving infectious disease dynamics. We compared interannual and seasonal patterns of anthrax infections in two…”
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Coalescence modeling of intrainfection Bacillus anthracis populations allows estimation of infection parameters in wild populations by Easterday, W. Ryan, Ponciano, José Miguel, Gomez, Juan Pablo, Van Ert, Matthew N., Hadfield, Ted, Bagamian, Karoun, Blackburn, Jason K., Stenseth, Nils Chr, Turner, Wendy C.

“…Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax, is a well-established model organism. For B. anthracis and most other infectious diseases, knowledge…”
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A classification framework for Bacillus anthracis defined by global genomic structure by Bruce, Spencer A., Schiraldi, Nicholas J., Kamath, Pauline L., Easterday, W. Ryan, Turner, Wendy C.

“…Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is a considerable global health threat affecting wildlife, livestock, and the general public. In this…”
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Software for minimalistic data management in large camera trap studies by Krishnappa, Yathin S., Turner, Wendy C.

“…The use of camera traps is now widespread and their importance in wildlife studies is well understood. Camera trap studies can produce millions of photographs…”
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