The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications

Free-ranging banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) in northeastern Botswana are infected by a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pathogen, M. mungi, which putatively infects mongooses through lesions in the skin (often the planum nasale) from an environmental reservoir. To understand the epidemiolog...

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Main Author: Laver, Peter Norman
Other Authors: Fisheries and Wildlife Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50973