Recording and Submitting Specimen History Data: Chapter 3 of Section C, Concepts in Wildlife Disease Surveillance and Investigation, Book 15, Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases.

摘要

With an increased focus on wildlife disease issues in recent years, wildlife disease specialists and wildlife diagnostic laboratories have become more common: however, the role of field biologists in the diagnostic process is also of equal importance. Field professionals are the eyes and ears of the wildlife disease world because of their proximity to wildlife mortality events and their intimate local knowledge of an area. Wildlife mortality events need to be discovered before they can be investigated; therefore, the entire investigatory process begins with the astute field biologist. The local biologist, disease expert, and laboratory diagnostician constitute a team that must work in concert to successfully carry out a wildlife disease investigation.