Article
Evidence for strain‐specific immunity to pneumonia in bighorn sheep
2017-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Transmission of pathogens commonly carried by domestic sheep and goats poses a serious threat to bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) populations. All‐age pneumonia die‐offs usually ensue, followed by asymptomatic carriage of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae by some of the survivors. Lambs born into these chronically infected populations often succumb to pneumonia, but adults are usually healthy. Surprisingly, we found that in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 18fc5c3b-da40-5aca-a327-6b9dc9a723f3
- DOI
- 10.1002/jwmg.21172
