Researchers will investigate how Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, a common cause of bacterial skin and postoperative infections in dogs, forms groups of bacteria that stick to surfaces, such as catheters and orthopedic metal implants, making infections difficult to treat.
Researchers will determine whether the fur of animal-assistance therapy dogs can become contaminated with hospital-associated infections and test whether low-costinterventions can reduce the risk of microbial transmission between therapy animals and patients with childhood cancer.
Researchers will investigate the use of slow-release subcutaneous implants for administering antibiotic and antifungal agents to birds with aspergillosis, a common infectious disease.
Researchers hope to identify the arthropod that serves as intermediary host for Gongylonema sp., a parasite which causes necrotic oropharingeal disease in scops owl chicks.
Researchers will develop a novel vaccine to prevent pneumonia caused by Mannheimia haemolytica in bighorn sheep.
The aim of this study is to determine whether distributing the oral sylvatic plague vaccine to prairie dogs has protective and other effects on small rodents that live in and around prairie dog colonies.
This study investigates the factors underlying poor lamb survival in bighorn sheep herds in the years following a pneumonia outbreak.
