Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study
Title
SCWDS BRIEFS: Volume 15, Number 3 (October 1999)
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
October 1999
SCWDS BRIEFS
October 1999
West Nile Virus
Viral Meningitis.
Arthropod-borne virus
EHDV-1 in the Eastern U.S.
Epizootic
hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) and
bluetongue virus (BTV) serogroups.
Insight From Recent EHDV Isolations
EHDV-1 will
grow in either CPAE or BHK21 cells.
CWD in Penned Elk in CO and MT
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids
Scrapie
Bovine spongiform
encephalopathy of cattle
Creutzfeld-Jakob
disease
Typhus and Flying Squirrels
Southern flying
squirrels (Glaucomys volans)
Louse-borne
typhus fever
Rickettsia
prowazekii
Wildlife Seed Treatment
National Wild Turkey
Federation (NWTF)
(1) Corn: Maxim® (fludioxonil) and
Apron® (metalaxyl); (2) Wheat: Dividend XL®
(difenoconazole and mefenoxam); (3) Sorghum:
Captan®; and (4) Sunflower: Captan®
LD50 or LC50
Dr. Murray Lankester
polymerase
chain reaction (PCR)
Dr.
Alvin Gajadhar
meningeal worms
(Parelaphostrongylus tenuis), muscle worms (P.
andersoni), western species of muscle worms (P.
odocoilei), tissue worms (Elaphostrongylus
rangiferi), lungworms (Dictyocaulus sp.)
Michael Duffy
Dr. Jane E. Huffman
Dr. Doug Roscoe
EHDV/BTV Isolations White-tailed Deer, 1999
