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Data for Fatal interactions: Pneumonia in bighorn lambs following experimental exposure to carriers of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae

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2014-01-01
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2019-12-31

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Walsh, D. P., Weyand, L. K., Felts, B. L., Cassirer, E. F., Jenks, J. A., and Besser, T. E., 2024, Data for Fatal interactions: Pneumonia in bighorn lambs following experimental exposure to carriers of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14MTUBA.

Summary

We hypothesized that bighorn sheep ewes with chronic nasal Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae carriage are the source of infection that results in fatal lamb pneumonia. We tested this hypothesis in captive bighorn ewes at two study facilities over a 5-year period, by identifying carrier ewes and then comparing lamb fates in groups that did (exposed pens) or did not (non-exposed pens) include one or more carrier ewes. This data set describes the outcomes of those experiments.

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The data were collected to assess the impact of bighorn sheep ewes chronically shedding Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae on lamb survival in a captive setting where intermingling was experimentally manipulated.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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  • Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units
  • USGS Data Release Products

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