Prevalence of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis in a sample of hunter-harvested white-tailed deer from a tri-county area in northeastern Wisconsin.
Heads from 78 hunter-harvested white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were donated for study during the 1985 Wisconsin gun hunting season. The intra-cranial nervous tissue was examined for Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. Prevalences were calculated for the total sample and for the portion of the sample which had no intra-cranial trauma. The prevalences thus calculated were 58% and 75%, respectively.
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Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison 53706.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000469:parasitology; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009348:Nematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012737:Sex Factors