SOUTHEASTERN COOPERATIVE
          WILDLIFE DISEASE STUDY



 
Shorebirds
                                           Ben Wilcox
bwilcox "at" uga.edu

Education:
B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Management with Chemistry and Environmental Science Minors, Lake Superior State University, 2003

MS student in Wildlife Ecology and Management, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Persistence of avian influenza virus in aquatic habitats under the direction of Drs. Yabsley and Stallknecht




 

Publications:
Yabsley MJ, Murphy SM, Luttrell MP, Wilcox BR, Ruckdeschel C. 2008. Raccoons (Procyon lotor), but not rodents, are natural and experimental hosts for an ehrlichial organism related to "Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis" Vet Microbiol. 2008 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Wilcox BR, Yabsley MJ, Ellis AE, Stallknecht DE, Gibbs SE. 2007. West Nile virus antibody prevalence in American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and fish crows (Corvus ossifragus) in Georgia, USA. Avian Dis. 51(1):125-8.

Gibbs SE, Allison AB, Yabsley MJ, Mead DG, Wilcox BR, Stallknecht DE. 2006. West Nile virus antibodies in avian species of Georgia, USA: 2000-2004. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 6(1):57-72.














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