Researchers will determine if co-infection with a recently discovered virus compounds clinical disease in koalas when they also have chlamydia infections – a common sexually transmitted disease that is endemic and leads to infertility in females and blindness in both sexes.
Researchers will study the genetic basis of chondrodystrophy (a lethal form of dwarfism) to help identify carriers of this fatal disorder in captive and wild California condors.
Researchers will investigate potential drivers of survival and mortality of cavedwelling bats affected by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease devastating bat populations in the United States.
Researchers will investigate the dynamics of hookworm infections causing high mortality in South American fur seal pups living on Guafo Island off the coast of southern Chile.
Researchers will investigate genetic changes that occur in the feline enteric coronavirus that contribute to the development of feline infectious peritonitis, an incurable and fatal disease in cats.
Researchers will conduct a clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of a novel antiviral drug in client-owned cats with naturally occurring feline infectious peritonitis as well as drug resistance that may occur during treatment.
Researchers will investigate if amoeba (single-celled animals) living in soils in endemic plague areas can serve as reservoir hosts for Yersinia pestis (the causative agent for bubonic plague) and if amoeba are involved in plague disease cycles.
