Terry R. Spraker
Professor

Phone: 297-4155
Fax: 297-0320
Email: Terry.Spraker@colostate.edu
Office: 319 Diagnostic Medicine Center
Lab: Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, VTH

Degrees

BS, Colorado State University, 1970
DVM, Colordo State University, 1972
PhD, Colorado State University, 1979

Board Certifications

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Anatomic Pathology

Research Interests

Terry Spraker is a diagnostic pathologist that works primarily with wild and domestic mammals and birds. Special project areas include chronic wasting disease of deer and Rocky Mountain elk, diseases of marine mammals, and diseases of sea turtles.

Selected Publications

Pub Med for Spraker TR.

Spraker TR, Adrian WJ, and Lance WR: Capture myopathy in wild turkeys (Megleagris gallopauo) following trapping, handling and transportation in Colorado. J Wildl Dis 23(3):447-453, 1987.

Thorne ET, Williams ES, Spraker TR, Helms W, and Segerstrom T: Blue tongue in free-ranging pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) in Wyoming: 1976 and 1984. J Wildl Dis 24(1):113-119, 1988.

Loughlin TR and Spraker TR: Use of Telaxol® to immobilize female northern sealions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska. J Wildl Dis 25(3):353-358, 1989.

Brian JE, Spraker TR, and Migaki G: Valvular endocarditis in a northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris). J Zoo Wildl Med 21:88-91, 1990.

Spraker TR: Basic necropsy procedures. In: Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians. Second Edition. Ed. by DM McCurnin, WB Saunders, p 525-541, 1990.

Spraker TR and Adrian WJ: Potential disease transmission problems associated with the intermixing of bighorn sheep with domestic sheep and cattle. Procedures from the Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council Meeting. Clarkston, Washington, May 1990, pp 67-75, 1990.

Madden D, Spraker TR, and Adrian WJ: Elaeophoresis in Colorado moose. J Wildl Dis 27:340-341, 1991.

Spraker TR: Stress and capture myopathy. In Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Volume III. Ed. by ME Fowler. Mark Morrison publisher, in review, 1992.

Spraker TR: Potential disease problems with the release of rehabilitated sea otters into free-ranging populations. Proceedings from the Sea Otter Symposium, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska, 1991.

Jensen R, Spraker TR, Glock RD, Jones RL, Collins JK, Flack DE, and Kerschen R: Abomasal erosions in feedlot cattle. Am J Vet Res 53:110-115, 1992.

Sigurdson, CJ, TR Spraker, MW Miller, B Oesch, and EA Hoover. 2001. PrPCWD in the myenteric plexus, vagosympathetic trunk and endocrine glands of deer with chronic wasting disease. Journal of General Virology. 82:2327-2334.

Spraker TR, RR Zink, BA Cummings, MA Wild, MW Miller, KI O'Rourke. 2002. Comparison of histological lesions and immunohistochemical staining of proteinase resistant prion protein in a naturally-occurring spongiform encephalopathy of free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) with those of chronic wasting disease of captive mule deer. Veterinary Pathhology. 39:110-119, 2002.

Spraker TR, KI O'Rourke, A Balencharane, MW Miller, BE Powers. Validation of Monoclonal Antibody F99/97.6.1 for immmunohistochemical staining of brain and tonsil in mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) with chronic wasting disease. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 14:3-7, 2002.

Spraker TR, RR Zink, BA Cummings, CJ Sigurdson, MW Miller, KI O'Rourke. Distribution of Protease-resistant Prion protein and spongiform encephalopathy in Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) with Chronic Wasting Disease. Veterinary Pathology. 39:546-556. 2002.

Aguirre AA, GH Balazs, TR Spraker, SKK Murakawa, and B Zimmerman. Pathology of oropharyngeal fibropapillomatosis in green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 14(4):298-304. 2002

Wild MA, TR Spraker, CJ Sigurdson, KI O'Rourke, MW Miller. Preclinical diagnosis of chronic wasting disease in captive mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) using tonsillar biopsy. G Gen Virology. 83:2617-2628, 2002