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Sylvatic Plague Vaccine: A New Tool for Conservation of Threatened and Endangered Species?

Overview of attention for article published in EcoHealth, July 2012
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Title
Sylvatic Plague Vaccine: A New Tool for Conservation of Threatened and Endangered Species?
Published in
EcoHealth, July 2012
DOI 10.1007/s10393-012-0783-5
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Authors

Rachel C. Abbott, Jorge E. Osorio, Christine M. Bunck, Tonie E. Rocke

Abstract

Plague, a disease caused by Yersinia pestis introduced into North America about 100 years ago, is devastating to prairie dogs and the highly endangered black-footed ferret. Current attempts to control plague in these species have historically relied on insecticidal dusting of prairie dog burrows to kill the fleas that spread the disease. Although successful in curtailing outbreaks in most instances, this method of plague control has significant limitations. Alternative approaches to plague management are being tested, including vaccination. Currently, all black-footed ferret kits released for reintroduction are vaccinated against plague with an injectable protein vaccine, and even wild-born kits are captured and vaccinated at some locations. In addition, a novel, virally vectored, oral vaccine to prevent plague in wild prairie dogs has been developed and will soon be tested as an alternative, preemptive management tool. If demonstrated to be successful, oral vaccination of selected prairie dog populations could decrease the occurrence of plague epizootics in key locations, thereby reducing the source of bacteria while avoiding the indiscriminate environmental effects of dusting. Just as rabies in wild carnivores has largely been controlled through an active surveillance and oral vaccination program, we believe an integrated plague management strategy would be similarly enhanced with the addition of a cost-effective, bait-delivered, sylvatic plague vaccine for prairie dogs. Control of plague in prairie dogs, and potentially other rodents, would significantly advance prairie dog conservation and black-footed ferret recovery.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
Malaysia 1 1%
Norway 1 1%
Mexico 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 84 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Student > Master 10 11%
Other 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 16 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 32 36%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 9 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 9%
Environmental Science 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 18 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2023.
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#1,329,376
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Outputs from EcoHealth
#79
of 723 outputs
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#7,604
of 165,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EcoHealth
#1
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