1 1 Sarcoptic mange outbreak decimates South American camelid populations in San 2 Guillermo National Park, Argentina 3 4 5 Hebe Ferreyra 1 , Jaime Rudd 2,#a , Janet Foley 2 , Ralph E. T. Vanstreels 3,6 , Ana M. Martín 4 , 6 Emiliano Donadio 5,#b , Marcela M. Uhart 6 * 7 8 1 Administración de Parques Nacionales, Argentina 9 2 Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, United States 10 of America 11 3 Institute of Research and Rehabilitation of Marine Animals (IPRAM), Brazil 12 4 Departmento de Patología Animal, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina 13 5 INBIOMA, CONICET, Argentina. 14 6 One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, 15 United States of America 16 17 #a Current Address: California Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States of America 18 #b : Current Address: Fundación Rewilding Argentina, Argentina 19 20 21 *Corresponding author 22 E-mail: muhart@ucdavis.edu (MU) . CC-BY 4.0 International license available under a (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted August 18, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.18.456827 doi: bioRxiv preprint