Understanding the mechanisms of cross-species virus transmission is critical to anticipating
emerging infectious diseases. Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) emerged as a variant of a …

Clostridium difficile was investigated as a possible cause of enteritis in calves. The organism
and its toxins (TcdA and TcdB), respectively, were found in 25.3% and 22.9% of stool …

Myxozoans are spore-forming, metazoan parasites common in cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates,
especially fishes, with alternate life cycle stages developing in invertebrates. We report …

Since 1998, cyclic mortality events in common eiders ( Somateria mollissima ), numbering in
the hundreds to thousands of dead birds, have been documented along the coast of Cape …

Background The recently-identified causative agent of White-Nose Syndrome (WNS),
Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has been responsible for the mortality of an estimated 5.5 million …

In April of 2006, we observed southern leopard frog (Rana sphenocephala) tadpoles in a pond
in northeast Georgia that were dying from an unknown pathogen. Examination of affected …

Inclusion body disease (IBD) is an infectious disease originally described in captive snakes.
It has traditionally been diagnosed by the presence of large eosinophilic cytoplasmic …

Clinical evidence of vascular dysfunction and hypercoagulability as well as pulmonary
vascular damage and microthrombosis are frequently reported in severe cases of human …

3. Kaida A, Kubo H, Sekiguchi J, Kohdera U, Togawa M, Shiomi M, et al. Enterovirus 68 in
children with acute respiratory tract infections, Osaka, Japan. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011; 17: 1494…

Three female sika deer from a single captive herd were submitted for postmortem examination
over a 139-day period. The first 2 deer submitted were reported to have lost body mass for …