Isolation of encysted Toxoplasma gondii from muscles of mule deer in Montana.
Toxoplasma gondii was isolated from muscles of 2 road-killed mule deer found near Bozeman, Mont, by feeding muscles to a Toxoplasma-free cat. The cat shed T gondii oocysts 5 days after ingesting muscles pooled from the 2 deer. One infective oocyst of this isolate of T gondii was lethal to mice.
D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000635:transmission; D002415:Cats; D003670:Deer; D005260:Female; D005506:Food Contamination; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat; D009009:Montana; D009132:Muscles / Q000469:parasitology*; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014124:Toxoplasmosis, Animal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission