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Anticoagulant exposure and notoedric mange in bobcats and mountain lions in urban Southern California
PaperThis study linked an epizootic of severe notoedric mange in urban bobcats and mountain lions to exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides. By combining disease surveillance, necropsy and toxicology in ra…
S. P. D. Riley, C. Bromley, R. H. Poppenga, et al. · Journal of Wildlife Management · 2007
Research overview: anticoagulant rodenticides, immune suppression and mange severity in wild cats
OverviewA growing body of work links sublethal anticoagulant rodenticide exposure to severe mange in urban bobcats and mountain lions, implicating chemical immunosuppression as the hidden driver. This overvie…
Research overview: disease ecology of urban-adapted felids
OverviewFelids living at the edges of cities, such as bobcats and mountain lions in California, face a distinctive disease landscape shaped by human activity. This overview surveys the disease ecology of urba…
Research overview: wild felids as sentinels for plague activity in the American West
OverviewBecause cats are relatively susceptible to plague and range widely, wild and domestic felids serve as useful sentinels for detecting Yersinia pestis circulation. This overview surveys how serosurveys…