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Christopher A. Cleveland, University of Georgia, 589 D. W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602. E-mail: ccleve@uga.edu
We thank the team members of Afrique One ASPIRE (http://afriqueoneaspire.org/), Institut de Recherche en Elevage pour le Développement (IRED), for their outstanding contributions in facilitating this work in the field. We also acknowledge Dr. Ajay Sharma (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia) for his assistance and providing diagnostic imaging techniques on the ferrets.
We also thank R. Bringolf, R. Ratajczak, and the staff at University of Georgia–Athens’s Animal Resources for assistance with this project. The Investigative Histopathology Unit at Michigan State University, East Lansing, is thanked for their expertise in preparing the worm samples for histological examination. A. Majewska would like to acknowledge support from the NIH IRACDA FIRST fellowship program (K12 GM000680/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States).
All procedures involving dogs and ferrets were reviewed and approved by the University of Georgia's institutional animal care and use committee committee (A2019 04-005-Y3-A0 and A2020 05-003-Y1-A0). The findings and conclusions in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This work was supported by The Carter Center; a full listing of Carter Center supporters is available at http://www.cartercenter.org/donate/corporate-government-foundation-partners/index.html.
Additional support was provided by the wildlife management agencies of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study member states through the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act (50 Stat. 917) and by a U.S. Department of the Interior Cooperative Agreement.
AAM was supported by NIH/NIGMS K12 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University (5K12GM000680-19).
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