Sylvatic plague vaccine: combating plague in prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets
The Wildlife Professional
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Abstract
After achieving promising results in laboratory trials, researchers at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) and University of Wisconsin at Madison will soon begin field testing a new oral vaccine for sylvatic plague, a devastating disease affecting prairie dogs and other mammals, particularly the endangered black-footed ferret. Our team has developed and is currently registering a sylvatic plague vaccine (SPV) that uses raccoon poxvirus (RCN) to express two key antigens of the Yersinia pestis bacterium, the causative agent of plague.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Sylvatic plague vaccine: combating plague in prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets |
| Series title | The Wildlife Professional |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Wildlife Society |
| Publisher location | Bethesda, MD |
| Contributing office(s) | National Wildlife Health Center |
| Description | 4 p. |
| First page | 50 |
| Last page | 53 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |