Kerry S. Sondgeroth

I began working at the University of Wyoming in 2014, on bacterial diseases that affect wildlife and livestock. In 2019, we discovered that a bacterial disease (Mycoplasmosis) was quickly killing large numbers of pronghorn in the northeast corner of Wyoming. Since that time we have expanded our research program to determine 1) which host species the Mycoplasma may have been transferred from, and 2) if there may be certain carriers of the bacteria in the pronghorn population. This emerging disease has potential impacts on pronghorn as well as other wildlife species.

August 2020