Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

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.

V. O. Ezenwa, Budischak, S. A., Buss, P., Seguel, M., Luikart, G., Jolles, A. E., and Sakamoto, K., “Natural resistance to worms exacerbates bovine tuberculosis severity independently of worm coinfection.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 118, no. 3, 2021.

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.

H. F. Tavalire, Hoal, E. G., le Roex, N., van Helden, P. D., Ezenwa, V. O., and Jolles, A. E., “Risk alleles for tuberculosis infection associate with reduced immune reactivity in a wild mammalian host.”, Proc Biol Sci, vol. 286, no. 1907, p. 20190914, 2019.

E. E. Gorsich, Etienne, R. S., Medlock, J., Beechler, B. R., Spaan, J. M., Spaan, R. S., Ezenwa, V. O., and Jolles, A. E., “Opposite outcomes of coinfection at individual and population scales.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 115, no. 29, pp. 7545-7550, 2018.

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.

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.

D. Sisson, Hufschmid, J., Jolles, A. E., Beechler, B. R., and Jabbar, A., “Molecular characterisation of Anaplasma species from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in Kruger National Park, South Africa.”, Ticks Tick Borne Dis, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 400-406, 2017.

C. E. Couch, Movius, M. A., Jolles, A. E., M Gorman, E., Rigas, J. D., and Beechler, B. R., “Serum biochemistry panels in African buffalo: Defining reference intervals and assessing variability across season, age and sex.”, PLoS One, vol. 12, no. 5, p. e0176830, 2017.

N. le Roex, Jolles, A. E., Beechler, B. R., van Helden, P., and Hoal, E., “Toll-like receptor (TLR) diversity influences mycobacterial growth in African buffalo.”, Tuberculosis (Edinb), vol. 104, pp. 87-94, 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

B. R. Beechler, “Rift valley Fever in Kruger national park: do buffalo play a role in the inter-epidemic circulation of virus?”, Transbound Emerg Dis, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 24-32, 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. 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.

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.

P. van Hooft, Prins, H. H. T., Getz, W. M., Jolles, A. E., van Wieren, S. E., Greyling, B. J., van Helden, P. D., and Bastos, A. D. S., “Rainfall-driven sex-ratio genes in African buffalo suggested by correlations between Y-chromosomal haplotype frequencies and foetal sex ratio.”, BMC Evol Biol, vol. 10, p. 106, 2010.

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.

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.

P. van Hooft, Greyling, B. J., Prins, H. H. T., Getz, W. M., Jolles, A. E., and Bastos, A. D. S., “Selection at the Y chromosome of the African buffalo driven by rainfall.”, PLoS One, vol. 2, no. 10, p. e1086, 2007.