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National Wildlife Health Center staff members have authored almost 1000 publications including USGS/NBS/FWS series publications, articles in peer-reviewed science journals, chapters in books, fact sheets, and other documents. This collection also includes papers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bear River Field Station in Utah and the work of Dr. Wayne Jensen, a pioneer in botulism research.

Nearly 400 of these publications, especially those published in recent years, are also available as PDF documents accessible through this database. Paper reprints of articles are available free of charge from the Center.

Recent publications

1. Cole, G. A., N. J. THOMAS, M. Spalding, R. Stroud, R. P. Urbanek, and B. K. Hartup. 2009. Postmortem evaluation of reintroduced migratory whooping cranes in eastern North America. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45(1):29-40. [Journal] 1186
   Avia, avian, bird, North America,
2. Joly, D. O., D. M. HEISEY, M. D. Samuel, C. A. Ribic, N. J. THOMAS, S. D. WRIGHT, and I. E. Wright. 2009. Estimating cause-specific mortality rates using recovered carcasses. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45(1):122-127. [Journal] 1185
   Avia, avian, bird, mammal, Mammalia, mortality,
3. Sandercock, B., A. Casey, D. GREEN, H. IP, and K. CONVERSE. 2008. Reovirus associated with mortality of an upland sandpiper. Wader Study Group Bulletin 115:60-61. [Journal] 1123
   avian, disease, mortality, sandpiper, viral, virus,
4. Friend, M. 2005. Wildlife disease in a changing world. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 70: 267-288. [Journal] 1065
   disease,
5. Peterson, A. T., S. E. Bush, E. Spackman, D. E. Swayne, and H. S. IP. 2008. Influenza A virus infections in land birds, People's Republic of China. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(10):1644-1646. [Journal] 1064
   Avia, avian, bird, China, disease, viral, virus,
6. FRANSON, J. 2008. Identifying roadblocks to recovery. Endangered Species Bulletin 33(3):50-53. [Journal] 1063
   methodology,
7. ROCKE, T.E. 2008. Protecting black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs against sylvatic plague. USGS Fact Sheet 2008-3087. [Fact Sheet] 1062
   disease,
8. Mitchell, A. and R. COLE. 2008. Survival of the faucet snail after chemical disinfection, pH extremes, and heated water bath treatments. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:1597-1600. [Journal] 1061
   invertebrate,
9. Jarvi, S., M. Lieberman, E.K. HOFMEISTER, V. Nerurkar, T. Wong, and C. Weeks-Levy. 2008. Protective efficacy of a recombinant subunit West Nile virus vaccine in domestic geese (Anser anser). Vaccine 26(42):5338-5344. [Journal] 1060
   disease,
10. Choudhury, A. and R. COLE. 2008. Phylum Nematoda. Pages 1063-1114 in Eiras, J.C., H.Segner, T. Wahli, and B.G. Kapoor, editors. Fish Diseases. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Jersey, USA. [Book Chapter (published commercially)] 1059
    disease, parasite, parasitic,