SUMMARY: Researchers will develop in-field methods and criteria to identify African lions with tuberculosis to guide disease mitigation efforts. THE PROBLEM: Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is the causative agent of...

SUMMARY: Researchers will evaluate the relationships between season changes, population dynamics, and climate change and their impact on disease transmission in bottlenose dolphins to help predict and monitor future disease outbreaks.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study foot-and-mouth disease strains circulating in buffalo and cattle living in overlapping ranges in South Africa to identify outbreak sources and strains contributing to widespread disease.

SUMMARY: Researchers will investigate the impact of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus hemorrhagic disease in Myanmar’s managed elephant population to help improve health management efforts for Asian elephants.

SUMMARY: Researchers will identify factors associated with the reproductive success and failure of Amur and Sumatran tigers housed in European zoos and create a biobank of cryopreserved sperm samples to assist with species conservation and breeding programs.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study genetic influences and skin microbiome (bacteria and fungi) in mange development in American black bears, a growing disease concern for this species.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study the effect mutations of FCoV-2 on the development of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).

SUMMARY: Researchers will study the genes that are turned “on” and “off” in feline gastrointestinal lymphoma as a step toward improving the diagnosis of this important cancer.