Epidemiology of the emergent disease Paridae pox in an intensively studied wild bird population.

Autor: Shelly Lachish, Becki Lawson, Andrew A Cunningham, Ben C Sheldon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 11, p e38316 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038316
Popis: Paridae pox, a novel avipoxvirus infection, has recently been identified as an emerging infectious disease affecting wild tit species in Great Britain. The incursion of Paridae pox to a long-term study site where populations of wild tits have been monitored in detail for several decades provided a unique opportunity to obtain information on the local-scale epidemiological characteristics of this novel infection during a disease outbreak. Using captures of >8000 individual birds, we show that, within two years of initial emergence, Paridae pox had become established within the population of great tits (Parus major) reaching relatively high peak prevalence (10%), but was far less prevalent (
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