Transcript O'Brien, Daniel

This project: What we hope to gain
• The ‘Big Picture’ of bTB epi in WTD, elk, others
– Up to 561 isolates spanning 20 years sampled from
the same geographic population
– How has this agent adapted to WTD as a
maintenance (vs. spillover, as in MN) host?
• Agent characteristics in supershedders
• Co-infection with multiple genotypes
– To distinguish maintenance from spillover hosts
– Intra-animal chronology of infection by site(?)
• Insight into rates of infection among deer,
among cattle, and interspecies (in both
directions)