BackgroundZoonotic pathogens respond to changes in host range and/or pathogen, vector and host ecology. Environmental changes (biodiversity, habitat changes, variability in climate), even at a local l
The Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis Philaster clade (DaScPc) was responsible for catastrophic long-spined urchin mass mortality in Spring and Summer 2022 throughout the eastern Caribbean. Despite
A study of Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) behavior and infection in Kenya, using 130 captured, tagged and tracked individuals over 4 years,to determine how social connectivity has a role in gut micro
Environmentally transmitted pathogens face ecological interactions (e.g., competition, predation, parasitism) in the outside-host environment and host immune system during infection. Despite the ubiqu