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ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2025

Oral delivery of bovine tuberculosis vaccine to free-ranging white-tailed deer.

Kurt VerCauteren, Abigail Feuka, Michael Lavelle, Michael Glow, Keely Kohen, Patrick Ryan, Tony Aderman, Anthony Duffiney, Mitchell Palmer, Paola M Boggiatto and 8 more

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Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Kurt VerCauterenUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Abigail FeukaUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Michael LavelleUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Michael GlowUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Keely KohenUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Patrick RyanUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Gaylord, MI, United States.
Tony AdermanUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Gaylord, MI, United States.
Anthony DuffineyUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Gaylord, MI, United States.
Mitchell PalmerUnited States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA, United States.
Paola M BoggiattoUnited States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA, United States.
Carly KanipeUnited States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA, United States.
Hayden HambyUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Emily RuellUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Melinda CosgroveMichigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division, Wildlife Health Section, Lansing, MI, United States.
Michael VanderklokAnimal Industry Division, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Lansing, MI, United States.
Nathan SnowUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Kim M PepinUnited States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.
Henry CampaDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Free-ranging white-tailed deer ( Materials and methods: Building off methods and strategies developed for vaccinating deer, we incorporated BCG vaccine into vaccine delivery units (DUs), consisting of a food-based matrix. We deployed DUs at sites in Michigan with a historically high prevalence of bTB. At each site, 100 DUs were placed systematically 2.5-m apart on 50-m x 10-m grids and monitored with still and video cameras. Consumption, still images, and video data were analyzed to assess uptake of vaccine DUs by deer. Results and discussion: Vaccine DUs were deployed in 2024 at 11 agricultural sites on private land which had previously demonstrated moderate to high deer activity and at all but two sites >50% of distributed vaccine DU's were consumed, with 100% consumed at two sites. Deer learned to seek out and consume vaccine DU's in just 1 to 3 days, with individuals often eating more than the 1 or 2 needed to vaccinate themselves. This high level of consumption was in spite of an exceptionally warm and dry winter, where deer were less food stressed than usual.

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BCGbovine tuberculosisdiseaseOdocoileus virginianusoralvaccinewhite-tailed deer

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PMID39995549
PMCPMC11847888

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