title: Experimental anaplasmosis in mule deer: persistence of infection of Anaplasma marginale and susceptibility to A. ovis.
abstract: An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle. Anaplasma ovis was experimentally transmitted from sheep to a splenectomized and a spleen-intact mule deer, and back to sheep. The pathogenesis in deer was very similar to that seen in sheep using ovine blood inoculations.
authors.affiliation: University of Idaho, Caine Veterinary Teaching Center, Caldwell 83605.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Zaugg
mesh_terms: D000709:Anaplasma / Q000472:pathogenicity; D000712:Anaplasmosis / Q000382:microbiology; D000818:Animals; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003670:Deer; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013156:Splenectomy / Q000662:veterinary