Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Zoe Barandongo

PhD
Email: barandongo@wisc.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Dolfi, A., K. Kausrud, K. Rysava, C. Champagne, Y-H Huang, Z.R. Barandongo, W.C. Turner. 2024. Season of death, pathogen persistence and wildlife behavior alter the number of anthrax secondary infections from environmental reservoirs, Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 291: 20232568. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2568 | Abstract February 2024
Barandongo, Z.R. A.C. Dolfi, Y-H. Huang, K. Rysava, S.A. Bruce, P.L. Kamath, H. van Heerden and W.C. Turner. 2023. The persistence of time: the lifespan of Bacillus anthracis spores in environmental reservoirs, Research in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2023.104029 | Abstract | Publisher Website January 2023
Presentations Presentation Date
Turner, W.C., A.C. Dolfi, Z.R. Barandongo. Anthrax transmission dynamics: heterogeneity in pathogen survival and host behavior affects secondary infections arising from infectious carcass sites. W71st Annual International Conference<br>of the Wildlife Disease Association, July 29-August 4th, 2023, Athens, Georgia. July 2023
Barandongo, Z.R., Huang, Y.-H., Dolfi, A.C., Bruce, S.A. and Turner, W.C. 2021. Environmental and genetic factors affecting <i>Bacillus anthracis</i> spore concentrations at anthrax carcass sites. 9th International Conference on <i>Bacillus anthracis</i>, <i>B. cereus</i> and <i>B. thuringiensis</i>, Paris, France, April 26-28, 2021 (virtual).<br><b> </b> April 2021