Burrow Dusting or Oral Vaccination Prevents Plague-Associated Prairie Dog Colony Collapse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19528426 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel W Tripp (Colorado Parks and Wildlife, corresponding author), Tonie E Rocke (0000-0003-3933-1563, United States Geological Survey), Jonathan P Runge (Colorado Parks and Wildlife), Rachel C Abbott (0000-0003-4820-9295, United States Geological Survey), Michael W Miller (0000-0002-3397-6451, Colorado Parks and Wildlife) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-462 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | EcoHealth (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1612-9202 • E-ISSN: 1612-9210 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10393-017-1236-y |
| PMID | 28643090 |
| OpenAlex | W2720034215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
Plague impacts prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.), the endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) and other sensitive wildlife species. We compared efficacy of prophylactic treatments (burrow dusting with deltamethrin or oral vaccination with recombinant "sylvatic plague vaccine" [RCN-F1/V307]) to placebo treatment in black-tailed prairie dog (C. ludovicianus) colonies. Between 2013 and 2015, we measured prairie dog apparent survival, burrow activity and flea abundance on triplicate plots ("blocks") receiving dust, vaccine or placebo treatment. Epizootic plague affected all three blocks but emerged asynchronously. Dust plots had fewer fleas per burrow (P < 0.0001), and prairie dogs captured on dust plots had fewer fleas (P < 0.0001) than those on vaccine or placebo plots. Burrow activity and prairie dog density declined sharply in placebo plots when epizootic plague emerged. Patterns in corresponding dust and vaccine plots were less consistent and appeared strongly influenced by timing of treatment applications relative to plague emergence. Deltamethrin or oral vaccination enhanced apparent survival within two blocks. Applying insecticide or vaccine prior to epizootic emergence blunted effects of plague on prairie dog survival and abundance, thereby preventing colony collapse. Successful plague mitigation will likely entail strategic combined uses of burrow dusting and oral vaccination within large colonies or colony complexes
Biology · Burrow · Cynomys ludovicianus · Epizootic · Flea · Outbreak · Prairie dog · Vaccination · Veterinary medicine · Zoology · Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies · Medicine · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Ecology · Virology
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Managing Populations, Diseases, and Landowner Perceptions of Prairie Dogs for Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction
Factors Influencing Uptake of Sylvatic Plague Vaccine Baits by Prairie Dogs
Potential Effects of Environmental Conditions on Prairie Dog Flea Development and Implications for Sylvatic Plague Epizootics
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Model Selection and Multimodel Inference
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Duration of Plague (Yersinia pestis) Outbreaks in Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Colonies of Northern Colorado
Sylvatic Plague Vaccine
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |