Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

A. L. Michel, Cooper, D., Jooste, J., de Klerk, L. - M., and Jolles, A. E., “Approaches towards optimising the gamma interferon assay for diagnosing Mycobacterium bovis infection in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).”, Prev Vet Med, vol. 98, no. 2-3, pp. 142-51, 2011.

A. E. Jolles, “Beyond mice and men: environmental change, immunity and infections in wild ungulates.”, Parasite Immunol, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 255-66, 2015.

C. E. Couch, Arnold, H. K., Crowhurst, R. S., Jolles, A. E., Sharpton, T. J., Witczak, M. F., Epps, C. W., and Beechler, B. R., “Bighorn sheep gut microbiomes associate with genetic and spatial structure across a metapopulation.”, Sci Rep, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 6582, 2020.

H. M. Broughton, Govender, D., Shikwambana, P., Chappell, P. E., and Jolles, A. E., “BRIDGING GAPS BETWEEN ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE: ESTABLISHING REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR FREE-RANGING AFRICAN LIONS (PANTHERA LEO).”, J Zoo Wildl Med, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 298-311, 2017.

K. A. Sabey, Song, S. Jin, Jolles, A. E., Knight, R., and Ezenwa, V. O., “Coinfection and infection duration shape how pathogens affect the African buffalo gut microbiota.”, ISME J, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1359-1371, 2021.

S. A. Budischak, Hoberg, E. P., Abrams, A., Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “A combined parasitological molecular approach for noninvasive characterization of parasitic nematode communities in wild hosts.”, Mol Ecol Resour, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1112-9, 2015.

L. V. Austin, Budischak, S. A., Ramadhin, J., Hoberg, E. P., Abrams, A., Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “A comparison of two methods for quantifying parasitic nematode fecundity.”, Parasitol Res, vol. 116, no. 5, pp. 1597-1602, 2017.

E. E. Gorsich, Ezenwa, V. O., Cross, P. C., Bengis, R. G., and Jolles, A. E., “Context-dependent survival, fecundity and predicted population-level consequences of brucellosis in African buffalo.”, J Anim Ecol, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 999-1009, 2015.

B. S. Dugovich, Peel, M. J., Palmer, A. L., Zielke, R. A., Sikora, A. E., Beechler, B. R., Jolles, A. E., Epps, C. W., and Dolan, B. P., “Detection of bacterial-reactive natural IgM antibodies in desert bighorn sheep populations.”, PLoS One, vol. 12, no. 6, p. e0180415, 2017.

N. le Roex, Cooper, D., van Helden, P. D., Hoal, E. G., and Jolles, A. E., “Disease Control in Wildlife: Evaluating a Test and Cull Programme for Bovine Tuberculosis in African Buffalo.”, Transbound Emerg Dis, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 647-657, 2016.

D. M. Hawley, Etienne, R. S., Ezenwa, V. O., and Jolles, A. E., “Does animal behavior underlie covariation between hosts' exposure to infectious agents and susceptibility to infection? Implications for disease dynamics.”, Integr Comp Biol, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 528-39, 2011.

B. R. Beechler, “Enemies and turncoats: bovine tuberculosis exposes pathogenic potential of Rift Valley fever virus in a common host, African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).”, Proc Biol Sci, vol. 282, no. 1805, 2015.

V. O. Ezenwa and Jolles, A. E., “Epidemiology. Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales.”, Science, vol. 347, no. 6218, pp. 175-7, 2015.

B. R. Beechler, Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “Evaluation of hematologic values in free-ranging African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).”, J Wildl Dis, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 57-66, 2009.

E. E. Gorsich, Bengis, R. G., Ezenwa, V. O., and Jolles, A. E., “Evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for diagnosing brucellosis in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).”, J Wildl Dis, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 9-18, 2015.

S. A. Budischak, Hoberg, E. P., Abrams, A., Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “Experimental insight into the process of parasite community assembly.”, J Anim Ecol, vol. 85, no. 5, pp. 1222-33, 2016.

V. O. Ezenwa and Jolles, A. E., “From host immunity to pathogen invasion: the effects of helminth coinfection on the dynamics of microparasites.”, Integr Comp Biol, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 540-51, 2011.

B. R. Beechler, Jolles, A. E., Budischak, S. A., Corstjens, P. L. A. M., Ezenwa, V. O., Smith, M., Spaan, R. S., van Dam, G. J., and Steinauer, M. L., “Host immunity, nutrition and coinfection alter longitudinal infection patterns of schistosomes in a free ranging African buffalo population.”, PLoS Negl Trop Dis, vol. 11, no. 12, p. e0006122, 2017.

M. Seguel, Beechler, B. R., Coon, C. C., Snyder, P. W., Spaan, J. M., Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “Immune stability predicts tuberculosis infection risk in a wild mammal.”, Proc Biol Sci, vol. 286, no. 1912, p. 20191401, 2019.

F. Keesing, Belden, L. K., Daszak, P., Dobson, A., C Harvell, D., Holt, R. D., Hudson, P., Jolles, A. E., Jones, K. E., Mitchell, C. E., Myers, S. S., Bogich, T., and Ostfeld, R. S., “Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.”, Nature, vol. 468, no. 7324, pp. 647-52, 2010.

A. E. Jolles, Etienne, R. S., and Olff, H., “Independent and competing disease risks: implications for host populations in variable environments.”, Am Nat, vol. 167, no. 5, pp. 745-57, 2006.

B. A. Han, Park, A. W., Jolles, A. E., and Altizer, S., “Infectious disease transmission and behavioural allometry in wild mammals.”, J Anim Ecol, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 637-646, 2015.

B. R. Beechler, Broughton, H., Bell, A., Ezenwa, V. O., and Jolles, A. E., “Innate immunity in free-ranging African buffalo (Syncerus caffer): associations with parasite infection and white blood cell counts.”, Physiol Biochem Zool, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 255-64, 2012.

A. E. Jolles, Ezenwa, V. O., Etienne, R. S., Turner, W. C., and Olff, H., “Interactions between macroparasites and microparasites drive infection patterns in free-ranging African buffalo.”, Ecology, vol. 89, no. 8, pp. 2239-50, 2008.

C. L. Nunn, Brezine, C., Jolles, A. E., and Ezenwa, V. O., “Interactions between micro- and macroparasites predict microparasite species richness across primates.”, Am Nat, vol. 183, no. 4, pp. 494-505, 2014.