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sylvatic /syl·vat·ic/ (sil-vat´ik) sylvan; pertaining to, located in, or living in the woods.
sylvatic
found in the woods; occurring in animals of the forest.
sylvatic plague
the disease of wild rats, ground squirrels, mice, marmots, owls, gophers, badgers, rabbits, prairie dogs and chipmunks caused by Yersinia pestis, and which serves as a reservoir for urban rats which are the origin, via the oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), of bubonic plague in humans.
sylvatic rabies
that form of the disease transmitted by forest-dwelling animals, particularly foxes and wolves.
sylvatic ringworm
ringworm in domestic animals transmitted from wild animals.
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Byline: ANI Washington, August 4 (ANI): A new oral vaccine against sylvatic plague is showing significant promise in the laboratory as a way to protect prairie dogs and may eventually protect endangered black-footed ferrets who now get the disease by eating infected prairie dogs.
New oral vaccine may help protect prairie dogs and ferrets from plague by Asian News International
Yellow fever is also endemic; nonhuman primates are the principal reservoirs of the disease during its sylvatic cycle.
The status of infectious disease in the Amazon region by Tauil, Pedro Luiz / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Prairie dog populations declined as people tried to eradicate them and diseases such as sylvatic plague swept the West.
Ferrets gone wild: reintroduced animals coming back in Wyoming by Milius, S. / Science News
 
 
 
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