
WYOMING WILDLIFE/LIVESTOCK DISEASE RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP 2006: PASTEURELLOSIS,
CWD AND BRUCELLOSIS IN WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK
(WYO-00583)
This partnership
grant tackles three wildlife-livestock diseases of concern to wildlife
managers and livestock producers in Wyoming. One study will attempt to
establish whether a group of domesticated sheep can induce pneumonia complex
in bighorn sheep, and the infectious agent(s) that are involved. The second
involves laboratory examination of the ease of which different types of
normal prion protein from deer are converted in vitro to pathological prion
proteins. The third study examines the merits of Wyoming's Game and Fish
Department's ongoing test and kill program to reduce the proportion of elk
infected with brucellosis on one feedground in western Wyoming.
University of Wyoming
Dept. 3354
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
(307)766-3667
e-mail: aes@uwyo.edu