Publications

prevalence of giardia and cryptosporidium species in dog park attending dogs compared to non-dog park attending dogs in one region of colorado.	dog parks are very popular in urban areas, but there are no current studies attempting to correlate visits to dog parks and risk of colonization by enteric parasites. the purpose of this study was to determine whether dog park visitation is associated with an increased prevalence of enteric parasites or an increase in prevalence of gastrointestinal signs in dogs in northern colorado. feces from dogs owned by veterinary students or veterinary teaching hospital staff members were submitted with a ...	2011	21890275
population genetic structure of the prairie dog flea and plague vector, oropsylla hirsuta.	oropsylla hirsuta is the primary flea of the black-tailed prairie dog and is a vector of the plague bacterium, yersinia pestis. we examined the population genetic structure of o. hirsuta fleas collected from 11 prairie dog colonies, 7 of which had experienced a plague-associated die-off in 1994. in a sample of 332 o. hirsuta collected from 226 host individuals, we detected 24 unique haplotype sequences in a 480 nucleotide segment of the cytochrome oxidase ii gene. we found significant overall po ...	2011	20696095