Resource Centre

• Wildlife Health Australia reports in Animal Health Surveillance Quarterly 
  
  
• Rowley et al (2024). Broad-scale pesticide screening finds anticoagulant rodenticide and legacy presticides in Australian frogs. Science of the Total Environment. 930, 172526
  
  
• Phillip Island Nature Parks (2024). Phillip Island (Millowl) Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) Disease Risk Analysis. University of Melbourne
  
  
• Cooke R et al (2022). Widespread exposure of powerful owls to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in Australia spans an urban to agricultural and forest landscape. Science of The Total Environment, 819, 153024
  
  
• Vaughan-Higgins RJ et al (2021). Streamlining disease risk analysis for wildlife using the Shark Bay Bandicoot as a model. EcoHealth, doi: 10.1007 / s10393-021-01521-3
  
  
• Iglesias R et al (2021). Australian bat lyssavirus: analysis of national bat surveillance data from 2010 to 2016. Viruses, 13(2), 189
  
  
• Le Souëf A et al (2020). Hindlimb paralysis syndrome in wild Carnaby's cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus latirostris): A new threat for an endangered species. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, doi: 10.7589 / 2019-02-044
  
  
• Brandis KJ et al (2019). Avian-botulism risk in waterbird breeding colonies and implications for environmental water management. Marine & Freshwater Research, doi: 10.1071/MF18446
  
  
• Tong L (2019). Chapter 22: Mycobacteriosis; Power M. Chapter 17: Antimicrobial resistance. In: Vogelnest L & Portas T (Eds.) (2019). Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing.
  
  
• Simpson KM et al (2018). Diversity of Salmonella serotypes from humans, food, domestic animals and wildlife in New South Wales, Australia. BMC Infectious Diseases, 18(1), 623
  
  
• Wicker L et al (2017). Leadbeater’s Possum Translocation Disease Risk Analysis. Zoos Victoria.
  
  
• Speight KN et al (2017). Outbreaks of sarcoptic mange in free‐ranging koala populations in Victoria and South Australia: a case series. Australian Veterinary Journal, 95(7), 244-249
  
  
• Australian Department of the Environment (2015). Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease and other identified Threats to Australian threatened Parrots. A paper to the TSSC on the analysis of the relative degree of threat from beak and feather disease compared to other threats for threatened psittacine species.
  
  
• Reiss A et al (2015). Investigation of potential diseases associated with Northern Territory mammal declines. In: National Environmental Research Program – Small Mammal Disease Investigation: Final Report.
  
  
• Cox-Witton K et al (2014). Emerging infectious diseases in free-ranging wildlife–Australian zoo based wildlife hospitals contribute to national surveillance. PLoS One, 9(5), e95127
  
  
• East IJ et al (2013). Use of a multi-criteria analysis framework to inform the design of risk based general surveillance systems for animal disease in Australia. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 112(3), 230-247 

• McKimmie, M et al., (2024). Collaborative wildlife disease outbreak investigation and response at Bells Swamp Victoria, Febuary 2023. Australian Veterinary Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.13364
  
  
• Sherwen, S et al., (2023). Chapter 26: Wildlife welfare and the 2019–20 wildfires. Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020. In: van Leeuwen S et al (Eds.) (2023). Australia's Megafires: Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020. CSIRO Publishing.
  
  
• Ghafar, A. et al., (2023). Unravelling the diversity of microorganisms in ticks from Australian wildlife. Pathogens. 12(2), 153
  
  
• Uwiera, RRE et al., (2022). Fungal rhinosinusitis caused by a Curvularia sp. infection in a female Sumatran orangutan: a case report. Pathogens. 11(10), 1166
  
  
• Cox-Witton K et al., (2021). Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from humans to bats – An Australian assessment. One Health, 13, 100247
  
  
• Vaughan-Higgins R et al., (2021). Streamlining disease risk analysis for wildlife using the Shark Bay bandicoot as a model. EcoHealth, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-021-01521-3
  
  
• Iglesias R et al., (2021). Australian bat lyssavirus: analysis of national bat surveillance data from 2010 to 2016. Viruses, 13(2), 189
  
  
• Baptista J et al., (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the welfare of animals in Australia. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7, 621843
  
  
• Salleh S et al., (2021). Caver Knowledge and biosecurity attitudes towards white-nose syndrome and implications for global spread. EcoHealth, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-020-01510-y
  
  
• Ban de Gouvea Pedroso S et al., (2020) Coccidiosis in green turtles (Chelonia Mydas) in Australia: Pathogenesis, spatial and temporal distribution, and climate-related determinants of disease outbreaks. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 56(2), 359-371
  
  
• Peters A et al., (2019). A solutions-focused translational research framework for wildlife health. Bioscience, 69(12), 1019-27
  
  
• Woods R & Grillo T (2019). Wildlife health in Australia. In: Vogelnest L & Portas T (Eds.) Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals, 2019, CSIRO Publishing.
  
  
• Reiss A (2019). Emerging infectious diseases. In: Vogelnest L & Portas T (Eds.) Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals, 2019, CSIRO Publishing.
  
  
• Cox-Witton K (2019). Bats. In: Vogelnest L & Portas T (Eds.) Current Therapy in Medicine of Australian Mammals, 2019, CSIRO Publishing
  
  
• Woods R et al., (2019). The importance of wildlife disease monitoring as part of global surveillance for zoonotic diseases: The role of Australia. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4(1), 29, https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4010029 [Open access]
  
  
• Cox-Witton K (2019). Australian bat lyssavirus - two decades on. Australian Veterinary Journal News.
  
  
• Stephens C et al., (2018). Proposed attributes of national wildlife health programmes. OIE Rev Sci Tech, 37(3):925-936
  
  
• Merritt T et al., (2018.) Australian bat lyssavirus. Australian Journal of General Practitioners, 47(3), 93-96 [Open access]
  
  
• Jakob-Hoff R et al., (2017) Bellinger River snapping turtle status review, disease risk analysis and conservation plan. IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group: Apple Valley, MN
  
  
• Nguyen NT et al., (2017) Report of the workshop on evidence-based design of national wildlife health programs: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017–1038, 18p, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171038
  
  
• Preece ND et al., (2017) A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation, 214, 136-146
  
  
• Barbosa A et al., (2017). Prevalence, genetic diversity and potential clinical impact of blood-borne and enteric protozoan parasites in native mammals from northern Australia. Veterinary Parasitology, 238, 94-105
  
  
• Phalen DN et al., (2017) Prevalence of columbid herpesvirus infection in feral pigeons (Columba livia) from New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, with spillover into a wild powerful owl (Ninox struena). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 53(3), 543-51
  
  
• Burnard D et al., (2017) Molecular evidence of Chlamydia pecorum and arthropod-associated Chlamydiae in an expanded range of marsupials. Scientific Reports, 7, 12844
  
  
• Grillo T et al., (2015) Avian influenza in Australia: a summary of 5 years of wild bird surveillance. Australian Veterinary Journal, 93 (11), 387–393 Supplementary Information
  
  
• Grillo T et al., (2015) Contribution to the 2012 Avian Influenza in Wild Birds Surveillance Program. RIRDC Publication No. 15/016. Project No. PRJ-008337. ISBN 978-1-74254-760-2
  
  
• Pacioni C et al., (2015) Disease hazard identification and assessment associated with wildlife population declines. Ecological Management & Restoration, 16, 142-152
  
  
• Reiss A et al., (2015). Investigation of potential diseases associated with Northern Territory mammal declines: final report. Charles Darwin University, Darwin
  
  
• Hyatt A et al., (2015) Effective coordination and management of emerging infectious diseases in wildlife populations. EcoHealth, 12(3), 408–411
  
  
• Cox-Witton K, et al., (2014) Emerging infectious diseases in free-ranging wildlife – Australian zoo based wildlife hospitals contribute to national surveillance. PLoS One, 9(5): e95127 [Open access]
  
  
• Quinn E, et al., (2014) Understanding human - bat interactions in NSW, Australia: improving risk communication for prevention of Australian bat lyssavirus. BMC Veterinary Research, 10(1), 144 [Open access]
  
  
• Grogan LF, et al., (2014) Surveillance for emerging biodiversity diseases of wildlife. PLoS Pathogens, 10(5): e1004015 [Open access]
  
  
• Woods R, (2011) Australian Bat Lyssavirus in Australia – an inter-sectoral “One Health” Approach to Disease Management. EcoHealth, 7 Supplement 1; S48
  
  
• Grillo T & Woods R, (2011) Wildlife networking in a One Health space. EcoHealth, 7 Supplement 1; S45-46
  
  
• Haynes L et al., (2009) Australian surveillance for avian influenza viruses in wild birds (July 2005 to June 2007). Australian Veterinary Journal, 87(7), 266-272
  
  
• Woods R et al., (2009) Diseases of Antarctic seabirds. In KR Kerry and MJ Riddle (Eds). Health of Antarctic wildlife - A challenge for science and policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany 530pp
  
  
• Vogelnest L & Woods R (Eds.) et al., (2008) Medicine of Australian mammals. CSIRO Publishing
  
  
• Woods R & Bunn C (2005) Wildlife health surveillance in Australia. Microbiology Australia, 26(2), 56-58
  
  
• Woods R & Bunn C (2005) Emerging wildlife diseases – impact on trade, human health and the environment. Microbiology Australia, 26(2), 53-55
  
  
• Tracey JP, et al., (2004) The role of wild birds in the transmission of avian influenza for Australia: an ecological perspective. Emu, 104, 109-124

WHA team contributions

• Steele SG, et al., (2021). Global health security must embrace a One Health approach: Contributions and experiences of veterinarians during the COVID-19 response in Australia. One Health, 13, 100314.
  
  
• Jakob-Hoff R, Carraro C, Sainsbury AW, Ewen J, and Canessa S, (Eds) (2014) Regent Honeyeater Disease Risk Analysis. IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group: Apple Valley, MN
  
  
• Jakob-Hoff RM, et al., (2014) Manual of Procedures for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis. World Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, 160 pp. Published in association with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Species Survival Commission
  
  
• Newman SH, et al., (Eds) (2011) Safe handling of bats (Chapt 9) In Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. 2011. Investigating the role of bats in emerging zoonoses: Balancing ecology, conservation and public health interests. FAO Animal Production and Health Manual No. 12. Rome

• Wille & Klaassen, (2023) No evidence for HPAI H5N1 2.3.4.4b incursion into Australia in 2022. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.13118
  
  
• Wille et al., (2023) Strong host phylogenetic and ecological effects on host competency for avian influenza in Australian wild birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(1991), p.20222237. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2237
  
  
• Wille et al., (2022) Australia as a global sink for the genetic diversity of avian influenza A virus. PLOS Pathogens. doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010150 
  
  
• Hoye et al., (2021) Reassortment and persistence of influenza A viruses from diverse geographic origins within Australian wild birds: evidence from a small, isolated population of Ruddy turnstones. Journal of Virology. doi: 10.1128 / JVI.02193-20
  
  
• Bhatta et al., (2020) Detection of a Reassortant H9N2 Avian Influenza Virus with Intercontinental Gene Segments in a Resident Australian Chestnut Teal. Viruses. 12(1):88. doi: 10.3390 / v12010088
  
  
• Wille et al., (2019) Serologic Evidence of Exposure to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 Viruses in Migratory Shorebirds, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 25(10):1903-1910. doi:10.3201 / eid2510.190699.
  
  
• Scott et al., (2018) Low-and high-pathogenic avian influenza H5 and H7 spread risk assessment within and between Australian commercial chicken farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 5, 63.
  
  
• Scott et al., (2018) Wildlife Presence and Interactions with Chickens on Australian Commercial Chicken Farms Assessed by Camera Traps. Avian Diseases. 62 (1): 65-72.
  
  
• Ferenczi et al., (2016) Avian influenza infection dynamics under variable climatic conditions, viral prevalence is rainfall driven in waterfowl from temperate, south-east Australia. Veterinary Research. 47 (1): 23.
  
  
• Grillo et al., (2015) Avian influenza in Australia: a summary of 5 years of wild bird surveillance. Australian Veterinary Journal. 93 (11): 387–393. Supplementary Information. 
  
  
• Grillo (2015) Contribution to the 2012 Avian Influenza in Wild Birds Surveillance Program. RIRDC Publication No. 15/016. Project No. PRJ-008337. ISBN 978-1-74254-760-2.
  
  
• Hoque et al., (2015) Epidemiology of avian influenza in wild aquatic birds in a biosecurity hotspot, North Queensland, Australia. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 118 (1): 169-181.
  
  
• Curran et al., (2015) Serological surveillance of wild waterfowl in Northern Australia for avian influenza virus shows variations in prevalence and a cyclical periodicity of infection. Avian Diseases, 59 (4): 492-497.
  
  
• Curran et al., (2014) Evaluation of avian influenza serologic and virologic diagnostic methods in wild Anseriformes and Charadriiformes. Avian Diseases, 58 (1): 53-59.
  
  
• Curran et al., (2013) Variation in the responses of wild species of duck, gull, and wader to inoculation with a wild-bird-origin H6N2 low pathogenicity avian influenza virus. Avian Diseases, 57 (3): 581-586.
  
  
• Curran et al., (2013) Surveillance of Charadriiformes in Northern Australia Shows Species Variations in Exposure to Avian Influenza Virus and Suggests Negligible Virus Prevalence. Avian Diseases, 58 (2): 199-204.
  
  
• Vijaykrishna et al., (2013) The recent establishment of North American H10 lineage influenza viruses in Australian wild waterfowl and the evolution of Australian avian influenza viruses. Journal of Virology, 87 (18):10182 - 10189.
  
  
• Roshier et al., (2012) Biogeographic models of gene flow in two waterfowl of the Australo‐Papuan tropics. Ecology and Evolution, 2 (11): 2803 - 2814. 
  
  
• Curran (2012) The surveillance and risk assessment of wild birds in northern Australia for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
  
  
• Hoque (2011) Risk of spill-over of diseases (in particular avian influenza) from wild aquatic birds in North Queensland. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
  
  
• Klaassen et al., (2011)  Identifying crucial gaps in our knowledge of the life-history of avian influenza viruses – an Australian perspective. Emu. 111(2): 103 - 11.
  
  
• Hansbro et al., (2010) Surveillance and Analysis of Avian Influenza Virus, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 16 (12): 1896 - 1904. [Full Text Online >>]
  
  
• Tracey (2010) Risk-based surveillance of avian influenza in Australia’s wild birds. Wildlife Research. 37: 134 - 144.
  
  
• Haynes et al., (2009) Australian surveillance for avian influenza viruses in wild birds (July 2005 to June 2007). Australian Veterinary Journal. 87 (7): 266 - 272.
  
  
• East et al., (2008) Identifying areas of Australia at risk for H5N1 avian influenza infection from exposure to nomadic waterfowl oving throughout the Australo-Papuan region. Geospatial Health. 3 (1): 17 - 27.
  
  
• East et al., (2008) Identifying areas of Australia at risk of H5N1 avian influenza infection from exposure to migratory birds: a spatial analysis. Geospat Health. 2: 203 - 213.
  
  
• Kishida et al., (2008) H2N5 influenza virus isolates from terns in Australia: genetic reassortants between those of the Eurasian and American lineages. Virus Genes. 37. 16 - 21.
  
  
• Warner et al., (2006) Application of rapid diagnostic tests in the targeted surveillance of Avian Influenza Virus within Victorian wild bird populations. Wildlife Exotic Disease Preparedness Program Report [Link to information about WEDPP]. 
  
  
• Tracey et al., (2005) Targeting surveillance for avian influenza in wild birds: a pilot investigation in New South Wales. Wildlife Exotic Disease Preparedness Program Report [Link to information about WEDPP]. 
  
  
• McCallum et al., (2004) Will the Wallace Line save Australia from avian influenza? Ecology and Society. 13 (2).
  
  
• Tracey et al., (2004) The role of wild birds in the transmission of avian influenza for Australia: an ecological perspective. Emu. 104 (2): 109 - 124.