A5020060448- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Multimedia Communication and Technology
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Rabies epidemiology and control
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
2015
Transmission electron microscopy identified adenovirus particles in 10 of 70 (14.3 per cent) samples large intestinal content collected at postmortem examination from free-living wild red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) across Great Britain between 2000 and 2009. Examination was limited to cases which an enteropathy suspected on the basis predetermined macroscopic criteria such as semi-solid or diarrhoeic faeces, enteritis presence intussusception. In most cases, meaningful histological enteric...
Red squirrels ( Sciurus vulgaris ) found dead or dying on the Isle of Wight and island Jersey were suffering from exudative, ulcerative dermatitis superficial staphylococcal pyoderma. The principal gross lesions lips, eyelids feet showed similarities to those squirrelpox. histopathological also similar and, although there was no ballooning degeneration epidermal cells, intracytoplasmic inclusions resembling seen in poxvirus infections present. Examination by electron microscopy failed...
Abstract Wildlife populations have been introduced to new areas by people for centuries, but this human‐mediated movement can disrupt natural patterns of genetic structure altering gene flow. Insular are particularly prone these influences due limited opportunities dispersal onto islands. Consequently, understanding how develop in island is important, given that islands frequently havens protected wildlife. We examined the evolutionary origins and extent within population red squirrels ( S...
Between 2007 and 2014, 337 free‐living red squirrels ( Sciurus vulgaris ) on Jersey, Channel Islands, were examined post mortem as part of a mortality disease surveillance scheme. Road traffic accidents (RTAs) attributable for 50.7 per cent (171/337) the casualties, 34.4 (116/337) succumbed to diseases including fatal exudative dermatitis (FED), 7.1 (24/337) predation, 6.5 (22/337) other trauma 1.2 (4/337) suspected poisoning. Cat predation accounted 5 (17/337) mortalities. Pathologies...
Viral infections globally threaten wild and captive mammal populations, with surveillance options limited by a lack of non-invasive diagnostics; especially when infection is asymptomatic in nature. We explored the potential for hair samples collected from red (Sciurus vulgaris) grey carolinensis) squirrels to provide means screening adenovirus (ADV) squirrelpox virus (SQPV) using evolving polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. An initial pilot study phase utilised opportunistically...
Fatal exudative dermatitis (FED) is a significant cause of death red squirrels ( Sciurus vulgaris ) on the island Jersey in Channel Islands where it associated with virulent clone Staphylococcus aureus, ST49. S. aureus ST49 has been found other hosts such as small mammals, pigs and humans, but dynamics carriage disease this clone, or any lineage squirrels, currently unknown. We used whole-genome sequencing to characterize 228 isolates from healthy Jersey, Isle Arran (Scotland) Brownsea...
The British red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) population is under threat for a variety of reasons, with disease due to squirrelpox virus playing significant role in declines. There is, however, relatively limited information on the large other infectious and non-infectious diseases that may affect UK squirrels, although several investigations have reported broad causes mortality (e.g. Keymer, 1983 ; LaRose et al, 2010 Simpson 2013a Dale 2014 ) contributing enhancing this knowledge. This...