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Appendix C: Other Diseases in GYA Wildlife
Pages 181-186

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From page 181...
... BACTERIAL DISEASES Tuberculosis Tuberculosis caused byMycobacterium bovis is a chronic bacterial disease that has tissue changes similar to those in brucellosis. Tubercular lesions develop in lungs and intestine, and transmission appears to occur by inhalation or by ingestion of contaminated material.
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From page 182...
... , a chronic intestinal infection of cattle and other ruminants, is a progressive granulomatous enteritis that is seen clinically as severe cliarrhea and wasting. Paratuberculosis has been reported in free-ranging ungulates, including bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
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From page 183...
... in 1 978. Other Granulomatous Bacterial Diseases Yers~niosis Disseminated microabscesses surrounding colonies of Yersiniapseudotubercul sis occur sporadically in many species of wild mammals and birds.
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... Granulomatous lesions resembling actinobacillosis lesions leave been reported in lymph nodes of elk in the northern YNP region. Consisting of aggregates of macrophages with dense "sulfur granules" composer!
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From page 185...
... Systemic viral infections similar to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and bovine viral diarrhea exist, or could exist, in bison or elk. Serologic evidence of infection with bluetongue, epidemic hemorrhagic disease, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, and bovine viral diarrhea can be found in elk and are most likely a reflection oftheir contact with cattle.
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From page 186...
... Evidence of the etiologic agents is found in brain, spinal cord, and lymph nodes (by using a monoclonal antibody derives! from antigens of ovine scrapie)
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Key Terms

  • lymph nodes
  • reproductive tract
  • bacterial diseases
  • ynp elk
  • bovine viral

  • buffalo national
  • lung lesions
  • viral diarrhea
  • serologic evidence
  • bovine rhinotracheitis

  • northern ynp
  • red deer
  • fallow deer
  • hemorrhagic disease
  • wood buffalo

  • infectious bovine
  • national park
  • cervus elaphus
  • pseudotuberculosis occur
  • epidemic hemorrhagic

  • elk collected
  • tule elk
  • spinal cord
  • respiratory disease
  • contaminated material

  • domestic sheep
  • mycobacterium bovis
  • tubercular lesions
  • tuberculosis caused
  • tracheobronchial lymph


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