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List of works by Terry R. Spraker

A Bighorn Sheep Die-off in Southern Colorado Involving a Pasteurellaceae Strain that May Have Originated from Syntopic Cattle

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

A natural case of chronic wasting disease in a free-ranging moose (Alces alces shirasi)

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

A species barrier limits transmission of chronic wasting disease to mink (Mustela vison).

scientific article published on April 2008

AGE AND REPEATED BIOPSY INFLUENCE ANTEMORTEM PRP(CWD) TESTING IN MULE DEER (ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS) IN COLORADO, USA.

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Abomasal and uterine adenocarcinomas with ovarian metastasis in a captive elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni).

scientific article published in September 2007

Antemortem Detection of PrPCWD in Preclinical, Ranch-Raised Rocky Mountain Elk (Cevvus Elaphus Nelsoni) by Biopsy of the Rectal Mucosa

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Antemortem diagnosis of a ventricular septal defect in a California sea lion Zalophus californianus

scientific article published on March 16, 2011

Association analysis of PRNP gene region with chronic wasting disease in Rocky Mountain elk

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Biliary Adenocarcinoma in a Stranded Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris)

scientific article published on July 1, 2003

Brucella pinnipedialis in lungworms Parafilaroides sp. and Pacific harbor seals Phoca vitulina richardsi: proposed pathogenesis

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

CWD prions remain infectious after passage through the digestive system of coyotes (Canis latrans).

scientific article published on 04 December 2015

Capillaria hepatica infection in black rats (Rattus rattus) on Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Causes of death in preweaned northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris, Gill, 1866), Año Nuevo State Reserve, California, 2012.

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Causes of mortality in northern elephant seal pups on San Miguel Island, California

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Causes of mortality in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, 1986-2006.

scientific article published in April 2010

Chronic wasting disease in a Wisconsin white-tailed deer farm

scientific article published in September 2008

Chronic wasting disease prions in elk antler velvet

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Complex Virome in a Mesenteric Lymph Node from a Californian Sea Lion (Zalophus Californianus) with Polyserositis and Steatitis

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Contrasting effects of heterozygosity on survival and hookworm resistance in California sea lion pups.

scientific article published in June 2006

Coxiella burnetiiin Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) Placentas from St. Paul Island, Alaska

scientific article published on October 21, 2011

Cryptococcus albidus Infection in a California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

De Novo Generation of a Unique Cervid Prion Strain Using Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification

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Detection of PrP(CWD) in postmortem rectal lymphoid tissues in Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) infected with chronic wasting disease

scientific article published in November 2006

Detection of PrPCWD in feces from naturally exposed Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) using protein misfolding cyclic amplification

scientific article published in April 2012

Detection of prion protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) with chronic wasting disease using protein misfolding cyclic amplification

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

Diagnostic accuracy of rectal mucosa biopsy testing for chronic wasting disease within white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herds in North America

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Dietary magnesium and copper affect survival time and neuroinflammation in chronic wasting disease

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Distribution of tissue enzymes in three species of pinnipeds

scientific article published in March 2008

Efficacy of antemortem rectal biopsies to diagnose and estimate prevalence of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cow elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni)

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Elk with a long incubation prion disease phenotype have a unique PrPd profile.

scientific article published in December 2007

Environmental Conditions Associated with Lesions in Introduced Free-Ranging Sheep in Hawai'i1

scientific article published in January 2014

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Outbreak in a Captive Facility Housing White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Bison (Bison bison), Elk (Cervus elaphus), Cattle (Bos taurus), and Goats (Capra hircus) in Colorado, USA

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease in yaks (Bos grunniens).

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Evidence of Two Cocirculating Canine Distemper Virus Strains in Mesocarnivores from Northern Colorado

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Experimental Infection of Raccoons (Procyon lotor) with West Nile Virus

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Experimental Oral Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease to Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)

scientific article published on June 18, 2012

Experimental oral transmission of chronic wasting disease to red deer (Cervus elaphus elaphus): early detection and late stage distribution of protease-resistant prion protein.

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Extended viral shedding of a low pathogenic avian influenza virus by striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis).

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Failure of Fallow Deer (Dama dama) to Develop Chronic Wasting Disease When Exposed to a Contaminated Environment and Infected Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Field validation and assessment of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detecting chronic wasting disease in mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni).

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Geographic variation in marine turtle fibropapillomatosis

scientific article published in September 2005

Histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings in two white-tailed deer fawns persistently infected with Bovine viral diarrhea virus

scientific article published on May 2008

Hookworm enteritis with bacteremia in California sea lion pups on San Miguel Island

scientific article published in April 2007

Human prion protein sequence elements impede cross-species chronic wasting disease transmission

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Human prion protein sequence elements impede cross-species chronic wasting disease transmission.

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Immunization with a synthetic peptide vaccine fails to protect mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from chronic wasting disease

scientific article published in July 2013

Impact of age and sex of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) on follicle counts from rectal mucosal biopsies for preclinical detection of chronic wasting disease

scientific article published in November 2009

In vitro strain adaptation of CWD prions by serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification

scientific article published on 25 October 2008

Increased risk of chronic wasting disease in Rocky Mountain elk associated with decreased magnesium and increased manganese in brain tissue

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Infectious disease and the decline of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska, USA: insights from serologic data

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Infectious prions in the saliva and blood of deer with chronic wasting disease

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Intranasal inoculation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with lyophilized chronic wasting disease prion particulate complexed to montmorillonite clay

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Isolation of Leptospira from a phocid: acute renal failure and mortality from Leptospirosis in rehabilitated northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), California, USA.

scientific article published on 7 May 2014

Isolation of Rabies Virus from the Salivary Glands of Wild and Domestic Carnivores during a Skunk Rabies Epizootic

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Lesions associated with a novel Mycoplasma sp. in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) undergoing rehabilitation

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Malignant catarrhal fever associated with ovine herpesvirus-2 in free-ranging mule deer in Colorado

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Metazoan parasites of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): A new data and review

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Molecular systematics of pinniped hookworms (Nematoda: Uncinaria): species delimitation, host associations and host-induced morphometric variation

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Morphological and molecular evidence for synonymy of Corynosoma obtuscens Lincicome, 1943 with Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937 (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae)

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Multifocal Necrotizing Myopathy in Northern Elephant Seal ( Mirounga angustirostris) Pups, San Miguel Island, California

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

Novel Type of Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Moose (Alces alces), Norway

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Novel polyomaviral infection in the placenta of a northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA.

scientific article published on January 2013

Oral papillomatosis in Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis).

scientific article published in October 2007

Pathology of Oropharyngeal Fibropapillomatosis in Green Turtles Chelonia mydas

scientific article published in December 2002

Plague as a mortality factor in Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) reintroduced to Colorado

scientific article published on July 2006

Polymorphisms in the prion precursor functional gene but not the pseudogene are associated with susceptibility to chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer

scientific article published in May 2004

Postmortem stability of S100B in the aqueous humor of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus).

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

PrPCWD in rectal lymphoid tissue of deer (Odocoileus spp.).

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Preclinical diagnosis of chronic wasting disease in captive mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) using tonsillar biopsy

scientific article published in October 2002

Pregnancy status and fetal prion genetics determine PrPSc accumulation in placentomes of scrapie-infected sheep

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Preliminary observations of genetic susceptibility of elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) to chronic wasting disease by experimental oral inoculation

scientific article published in January 2006

Primary pneumonic plague contracted from a mountain lion carcass

scientific article published on August 2009

Prion amplification and hierarchical Bayesian modeling refine detection of prion infection

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Progressive accumulation of the abnormal conformer of the prion protein and spongiform encephalopathy in the obex of nonsymptomatic and symptomatic Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) with chronic wasting disease

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Review of metazoan parasites of the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) and the analysis of the gastrointestinal helminth community of the population on St. Paul Island, Alaska

scientific article published on 07 November 2020

Review of research on hookworms (Uncinaria lucasi Stiles, 1901) in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus, 1758).

scientific article published on 03 May 2011

Salmonellosis in a free-ranging population of javelinas (Pecari tajacu) in south central Arizona

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Sex steroid concentrations and localization of steroidogenic enzyme expression in free-ranging female northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus).

scientific article published on 13 February 2006

Shedding of a low pathogenic avian influenza virus in a common synanthropic mammal--the cottontail rabbit

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The cestode community in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) on St. Paul Island, Alaska.

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Transmissibility of caprine scrapie in ovine transgenic mice.

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Update on the prevalence of the hookworm, Uncinaria lucasi, in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) on St. Paul Island, Alaska, 2011.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome in African Pygmy Hedgehogs (Atelerix spp.)