Sepsis, the body’s overactive response to infection, is a common cause of foal illness and death. Septic foals show signs of body system collapse, leading to severe pain, prolonged treatment...

Researchers will determine whether an emerging and deadly salamander pathogen can be reliably detected in the DNA found in their housing environments to help improve disease monitoring in the live animal trade.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study if curcumin, a substance found in turmeric, can be used to treat chytrid infections in amphibians. THE PROBLEM: Chytrid disease has devastated amphibian populations around the...

SUMMARY: Researchers will collaborate with trap-neuter-return organizations to provide tissue samples from the ear tipping of free-roaming cats living in Florida, which helps identify cats after surgery. Researchers will use...

This study is part of our fellowship program, established to support early career research scientists. The Fellow will use advanced genetic technologies to discover causative agents of severe disease and high mortality in yellow-eyed penguin chicks.

Researchers will test a probiotic treatment strategy (the use of beneficial, pathogen-inhibiting microbes) in wild boreal toads under threat from an emerging fungal disease.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study a new treatment for foal’s pneumonia caused by R. equi. THE PROBLEM: Kentucky’s economy and state image relies heavily on the horse industry, with roughly 1.74...

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic contagious disease caused by Mycobacteria bovis (M. bovis) that can affect a wide range of mammals, including wildlife, livestock and humans. Several wildlife species...

Researchers will explore the use of a specific protein in the development of drug therapy for African horse sickness, a serious, and often fatal hemorrhagic disease of horses, mules and donkeys.

SUMMARY: Researchers will assess if the currently available yellow fever vaccine for humans is equally safe and effective in New World primates as a tool to address disease outbreaks.