Publications
| seroepidemiology of toxoplasma gondii in zoo animals in selected zoos in the midwestern united states. | toxoplasma gondii infections in zoo animals are of interest because many captive animals die of clinical toxoplasmosis and because of the potential risk of exposure of children and elderly to t. gondii oocysts excreted by cats in the zoos. seroprevalence of t. gondii antibodies in wild zoo felids, highly susceptible zoo species, and feral cats from 8 zoos of the midwestern united states was determined by using the modified agglutination test (mat). a titer of 1:25 was considered indicative of t. ... | 2008 | 18605803 |
| avian vacuolar myelinopathy linked to exotic aquatic plants and a novel cyanobacterial species. | invasions of exotic species have created environmental havoc through competition and displacement of native plants and animals. the introduction of hydrilla (hydrilla verticillata) into the united states in the 1960s has been detrimental to navigation, power generation, water intake, and water quality (mccann et al., 1996). our field surveys and feeding studies have now implicated exotic hydrilla and associated epiphytic cyanobacterial species as a link to avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm), an e ... | 2005 | 15892059 |