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Diverse Wild Bird Host Range of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in Eastern North America
25 Jul 2014
Abstract excerpt
Emerging infectious diseases often result from pathogens jumping to novel hosts. Identifying possibilities and constraints on host transfer is therefore an important facet of research in disease ecology. Host transfers can be studied for the bacterium Mycoplasma gallisepticum, predominantly a pathogen of poultry until its 1994 appearance and subsequent epidemic spread in a wild songbird, the house finch...
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